Heat pump installations have reached the quarter million mark, says MCS
The latest MCS data shows that over a quarter of a million certified heat pumps have now been installed in the UK, with certified installations in July topping 4,500 units.
Ian Rippin, chief executive at MCS, said:
July was the fifth month in a row to have more than 4,500 certified heat pump installations, maintaining progress towards 2024 being a record year for the technology – by a sizeable margin. In total, there have now been over 250,000 certified heat pumps installed in the UK, which is a significant milestone in the adoption of small-scale renewables.
At the same time, battery storage has shown a significant increase, with more than 15,000 certified installations, with over 10,000 in 2024 so far.. MCS noted that these are often combined with solar PV, which has itself surpassed 100,000 certified installations for the year
Ian added:
The extraordinary rise in the number of certified battery storage installations shows that more UK homeowners are switching on to the benefits of renewable energy.
MCS holds the most comprehensive repository of data on the uptake of small-scale renewable technologies across the UK on The MCS Data Dashboard. For near-real-time updates on renewable installations, interested parties can sign up to the Dashboard here.
The Dashboard is divided into two sections: Installation Insights and Scheme Insights. Both can be filtered by year, location, technology type and installation type, and the system is updated every 24 hours as new installation data becomes available.
MCS notes that address-level installation data is mapped to the local authority/regional/national geographical levels using a small degree of estimation from postcode to output area, in order to be matched to Census data. It adds that as there is no live data on households for each local authority, the uptake percentages should be taken as estimates, with their calculation being the total number of installations in an area divided by the total number of households in that same area.
