Heat Pumps Today

13 CMYK / .ai CMYK / .ai CMYK / .ai www.acrjournal.uk/heat-pumps Positive impact The good news is that DNOs are beginning to recognise that investments that they can choose to make are in their own interests. For example, deploying three- phase connections (and ensuring that three-phase equipment is routinely installed), has very significant positive grid balancing impacts at minimal cost. It is recognised that a significant upgrade of the UK’s electrical infrastructure is necessary to accommodate both EVs and heat pumps. The cost will be substantial but it should not be the individual homeowner who picks up the bill because it is government legislation and policy which is driving the country down this route. These costs must be recovered through the DUoS approach. Whilst this means we will all ultimately end up paying a share of the upgrade costs, it does not persecute the individual early adopters who are trying to do their bit. The Heat Pump Federation, which supports and lobbies for the heat pump industry, is actively working with the DNOs, the ENA and Ofgem to ease the pathway for heat pump deployment. RIIO-ED2 will begin in 2023. It is essential that this new financial settlement allows investment in the grid at a level that delivers the rapid rollout of both heat pumps and EVs which the country needs to meet the legally binding Net Zero 2050 target. This will not happen unless the vast majority of costs are socialised, that is, spread across all bill payers. This approach is justified because it is the whole community which benefits from decarbonisation and from the improvements in air quality which result from the replacement of both petrol and diesel engines, and fossil fuel boilers. https://bit.ly/SeconDCP205 * Distribution Use of System P O W E R S U P P LY