The Heat Pump Association (HPA) published its reaction on 26 February 2025 to the Climate Change Committee's Carbon Budget 7 advice to Government. Charlotte Lee, the association's chief executive, said the CCC had identified heat pumps as a pivotal technology in the transition, with 450,000 installations needed per year by 2030 and 1.5 million by 20351.
The HPA said the CCC's advice attributes 14 per cent of the emission reductions expected by 2040 to homes1. The association describes itself as representing over 120 member organisations, whose sales account for around 90 per cent of the volume of heat pumps sold in the UK market1.
"The message is clear, to meet carbon budgets we must decarbonise heat from buildings, with 14% of the emission reductions expected by 2040 to come from homes."
Lee said Government intervention was required "to support and streamline the transition today to create the savings for the future", and that addressing the disparity between electricity and gas prices was fundamental, describing it as vital to accelerating electrification in sectors such as heating and surface transport1. She also called for prompt implementation of the Future Homes and Buildings Standard, saying delay would compound the challenge of decarbonising heat from buildings1.
The HPA welcomed the CCC's focus on consumer impact, stating that behaviour and choices are essential to achieving the required emission reductions and that the transition must be a just one1. The association's statement did not set out a timetable for the price rebalancing or name a date for the Standard's implementation; those points have not been reported in the material published by the HPA1.
Why it matters for households
The figures cited by the HPA describe the pace of change the CCC considers necessary rather than anything already delivered. For a household, the practical questions are what replaces a gas boiler, what it costs to run, and when rules on new build and retrofit take effect. The association's emphasis on the gap between electricity and gas prices points to running costs as the central issue: a heat pump's running cost depends heavily on how electricity is priced relative to gas, so movement on that disparity would affect household bills more directly than installation targets alone. The Future Homes and Buildings Standard governs what new homes must be built to, so its timing affects buyers of new properties rather than existing homes. The HPA's statement does not quantify bill impacts for individual households, and no such figures appear in its published reaction1.
What happens next
The HPA's statement contains no dated commitments of its own. It points to the CCC's Carbon Budget 7 advice as the document setting out the pathway, and calls for the Future Homes and Buildings Standard to be implemented without delay, without giving a date1.