UK electrification strategy should emphasize heating over EVs, researcher says

        July 5, 2019 gtm: | United Kingdom | energy: future

The UK is investing £1.5 billion as EV uptake rises from about 50,000 to over 14 million by 2035 with a 7-GW increase in peak demand. Energy-saving hybrid heat pumps (HHP) increases decarbonisation and don’t impact peak demand, yet only about 20% of 500,000 installed heat pumps are hybrids. 3.7 million dwellings could have hybrid heat pumps by 2030.