HEAT pump manufacturers got a welcome boost from the government's decision to offer £400 to householders to help finance the upgrade of their G-rated boiler with 'a new boiler or renewable heat unit'.
Chancellor Alistair Darling's 2009 pre-budget report, published on December 9, stated the 'Greener Boiler Incentive' scheme will benefit 125,000 households.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change said it will work with industry to launch the scheme at the earliest opportunity in 2010.

'We were initially concerned that the scheme would only look at replacing old gas boilers for new gas boilers, which would have penalised green technologies such as air source heat pumps, so we are delighted that they have been included in the scheme,' said John Kellett, general manager of Mitsubishi Electric's heating systems division.