Air source heat pumps, also known as reverse-cycle air conditioners, is a system which transfers heat from inside to the outside of a building or vice versa. Electricity was the most common fuel to be replaced by air source heat pumps. As of December 2019, 30 percent of the fuel types displaced by this renewable technology were originally run on electricity.
Great Britain has begun a transformation to a low carbon heat system, launching the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) in 2011 and further implementing RHI in the domestic sector in 2014. Scotland has the largest number of RHI applications and accreditations. Under the RHI, fossil fuels have been replaced by air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps, biomass and solar thermal systems.
Number of fuel types replaced with air source heat pumps under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) in Great Britain between 2014 and 2019*
* Data covers the period from April 2014 to December 2019. The non-domestic RHI has been in operation since November 2011, and the domestic RHI was launched in April 2014.
** Other/NA refers to any application replacing a fuel type other than the six fuels listed, and installations in new properties in which no previous system exists.
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UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. (January 23, 2020). Number of fuel types replaced with air source heat pumps under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) in Great Britain between 2014 and 2019* [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/422705/fuel-types-displaced-with-air-source-heat-pumps-uk/
UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. "Number of fuel types replaced with air source heat pumps under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) in Great Britain between 2014 and 2019* ." Chart. January 23, 2020. Statista. Accessed December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/422705/fuel-types-displaced-with-air-source-heat-pumps-uk/
UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. (2020). Number of fuel types replaced with air source heat pumps under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) in Great Britain between 2014 and 2019* . Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/422705/fuel-types-displaced-with-air-source-heat-pumps-uk/
UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. "Number of Fuel Types Replaced with Air Source Heat Pumps under The Renewable Heat Incentive (Rhi) in Great Britain between 2014 and 2019* ." Statista, Statista Inc., 23 Jan 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/422705/fuel-types-displaced-with-air-source-heat-pumps-uk/
UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Number of fuel types replaced with air source heat pumps under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) in Great Britain between 2014 and 2019* Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/422705/fuel-types-displaced-with-air-source-heat-pumps-uk/ (last visited December 22, 2024)
Number of fuel types replaced with air source heat pumps under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) in Great Britain between 2014 and 2019* [Graph], UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, January 23, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/422705/fuel-types-displaced-with-air-source-heat-pumps-uk/
