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Recommendation 22
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We recommend that as part of the forthcoming Heat and Buildings strategy a national retrofit...
Recommendation
We recommend that as part of the forthcoming Heat and Buildings strategy a national retrofit strategy is developed with colleges and other education providers to provide the training and re-training needed to prepare our homes for a low-carbon future. The strategy must address the much-needed increase in certified heat pump installers to meet expected demand including through recruitment incentives, with support for apprenticeships and reskilling.
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Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
The Department is continuing its work with the Green Jobs Taskforce to produce an Action Plan for Net Zero skills across a range of sectors with the goal of 2 million net zero jobs by 2030. As part of this, for heating, Government is aware that we will need to significantly increase the number of trained installers to deliver our 2028 target of installing 600,000 heat pumps per year. We are working closely with both industry and education providers to ensure that appropriate training is available, both for new entrants to the sector and existing heating installers who do not have heat pump experience. By the end of 2021, we expect industry to have capacity to upskill over 7,000 heating installers per year to install 16 Energy efficiency of existing homes: Government Response heat pumps. In addition, BEIS is also feeding into research conducted by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), which will constitute a skills analysis based on expected net-zero deployment trajectories advised by the CCC and focus on the skills required to improve the energy efficiency of new and existing buildings, as well as an anticipated large-scale switch to low-carbon heat.