EDF snaps up UK’s main air offer warmth pump installer

The acquisition follows on from a strategic investment made by EDF into CB Heating closing year to prepare a brand recent expertise of warmth pump installers.

This supported the building of the Heat Pump Installers Network (HPIN) Academy, which delivers free coaching to upskill engineers at every stage in the UK.

Now following the agency’s acquisition,  EDF goals to connect apart a proper team in diagram to inform warmth pump solutions for a broad differ of properties across the nation, forming allotment of a wider differ of zero carbon home products for both native authorities and developers having a glimpse to make obvious compliance with the recent rules.

At the sleek time’s announcement comes the recent Authorities extension of the Boiler Toughen Scheme, and 50% enhance for the air offer warmth pump grant, rising from £5,000 to £7,500.

The Authorities’s Future Properties Customary bans the set up of gas boilers in recent properties by 2025, transferring to a total ban of fossil fuel gas boilers by 2035.

Philippe Commaret, managing director of Customers at EDF, talked about: “The investment we’re making in the warmth pump market is representative of the total work we’re doing to abet Britain attain rep zero.

“Having purchased stand-out installer CB Heating, we dwell up for handing over an wonderful larger provider and added designate for our customers, making it more uncomplicated for them to substitute from polluting fossil fuels to low carbon electrical energy, and in doing so, attach money and carbon.”

The UK has been estimated to require 27,000 qualified engineers to meet recent authorities targets of handing over 600,000 warmth pump installations every year by 2028.

Currently, there are around 4,500 qualified warmth pump installers compared to larger than 150,000 gas safe engineers.

The free HPIN Academy has the prospective to prepare up to 4,000 recent warmth pump installers every year, bringing particular affect to a total bunch of communities across the nation.

Clayton Browne, managing director at CB Heating, talked about: “Now CB Heating has the investment and resource to proceed its scramble to originate and grow our HPIN network, which is the largest network of qualified expert warmth pump installers in the UK.

“We conception to prepare over 1000 warmth pump installers in 2024, which system a quarter of all estimated warmth pump installers in the UK will be a HPIN member.

“It’s a surely thrilling time for CB Heating as we snatch this subsequent step in our 23-year history.”