The Future of Space Heating

If you were to take the gas currently being used to heat your home and burn in a power station, you could generate enough electricity to heat three homes. Heat pumps not only deliver energy efficiency and decarbonisation, they also hold the key to eliminating energy-related production of nitrous oxides. A recent paper estimated that gas, furnaces and open-flamed cooking are responsible for one in a cases of childhood asthma in the US. The figure in the UK is probably twice that because of the enduring popularity of cooking using gas. Over the past few years, the heat pump market has finally begun to take off. IEA recently released figures showing that global sales grew 11% in 2022