*New piece* Do heat pumps work in rural areas? YES! Rural areas are where most UK heat pumps are, actually. In his net zero speech, Rishi Sunak slowed down the switch to heat pumps in rural areas. Instead, he should have been trying to accelerate it... www.nesta.org.uk/blog/do-heat...

Do heat pumps work in rural areas?

Rural areas already form the backbone of Britain’s heat pump sector, and that is an opportunity we should build on, not walk away from.

To date, 80% of all the heat pumps installed in Britain are concentrated in the ~15% of homes that are off the gas grid - mostly in rural areas. That's why Britain's heat pump map looks like this - with rural areas from Cornwall to the Highlands leading the way