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The Government Wants To Close The Heat Pumps Skills Gap, But...

7 Feb 2026 · 0 min

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In a brief conversational exchange, Speaker A notes that while the government is actively promoting heat pumps and there is considerable public discourse, the actual number of installations on the ground appears modest. Speaker B attributes this discrepancy to a skills gap, specifically a shortage of qualified engineers needed to install heat pumps. Both speakers agree that uptake exists but falls short of the expectations set by government policy, highlighting the mismatch between policy ambition and workforce capacity.

I think heat pumps is sort of a steady incline. I know the government's quite keen about it. There's a lot of talk about it, but there doesn't seem to be, like, when you actually look at the ground about how many are installed, etc.
Yeah, this comes back to the, the skill gap. The government want one thing, and it's having the engineers there to do it in the first place. There is an uptake in heat pumps, but not— I don't think it's to the same or to the level that people probably thought it would be.