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<p>As part of the Department’s £505 million Energy Innovation Programme, the £14.6
million Electrification of Heat Demonstration Project will showcase the feasibility
of installing heat pumps in a range of homes across the UK, but will focus largely
on homes connected to the gas network.</p><p> </p><p>The Project has a target that
at least 85 per cent of heat pumps installed under this project will be in homes that
currently use gas as their primary heating fuel. Installations have only recently
begun – following delays caused by coronavirus – but as of Thursday 19 November 2020,
19 installations had been completed, all of which were in homes that previously used
gas as their primary heating fuel.</p>
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