Current status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 8 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6O-01292 by Patrick Harvie on 29 June 2022, whether it will publish the referenced data on heat pumps.
The answer to question S6O-01292 does not directly reference any data on heat pumps. However, the answer to the supplementary question does:
"the experience that we have and the comparable data that we have from countries that already have a long history of using heat pumps and heat networks show that they will be effective in Scotland"
The research being referenced here was commissioned by the Scottish Government through ClimateXChange and was published under the title “Heat pump use in Scotland - an evidence review” in October 2021. The paper can be found here:
https://www.climatexchange.org.uk/research/projects/heat-pump-use-in-scotland-an-evidence-review/