Question reference: S6W-10186
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 5 August 2022 Registered interest
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Current status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 25 August 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many heating and renewable installations under the (a) Warmer Homes Scotland (b) area-based schemes and (c) Home Energy Scotland Loans and Cashback schemes were (i) gas boilers (ii) electric storage heaters (iii) air source heat pumps (iv) oil boilers (v) solar PV (vi) LPG boilers (vii) biomass boilers (viii) domestic battery storage units, (ix) district heating connections and (x) solar thermal systems, in each year of operation of the respective schemes.
Answer
The answer to your question is outlined in the following tables. Please note, data for 2021-2022 Area Based Schemes are still being collected and will be published on the ABS webpage in due course: Area Based Schemes: annual final measures reports - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) .
Warmer Homes Scotland
2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | 2021-2022 | |
Gas Boilers | 1070 | 4010 | 4256 | 2627 | 2544 | 2633 | 3870 |
Electric Storage Heaters | 99 | 242 | 301 | 279 | 278 | 212 | 306 |
Air Source Heat Pumps | 0 | 32 | 70 | 122 | 138 | 166 | 261 |
Oil Boilers | 67 | 236 | 353 | 269 | 234 | 210 | 196 |
Solar PV | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 19 | 22 | 88 |
LPG Boilers | 50 | 574 | 484 | 114 | 90 | 74 | 49 |
Biomass Boilers | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 |
Domestic Battery Storage Units | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
District Heating Connections | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Solar Thermal Systems | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Area Based Schemes
2013-2014 | 2014-2015 | 2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | |
Gas Boilers | 2834 | 440 | 319 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 21 | 30 |
Electric Storage Heaters | 216 | 163 | 16 | 40 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 25 |
Air Source Heat Pumps | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 64 | 80 |
Oil Boilers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Solar PV | 0 | 267 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144 |
LPG Boilers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biomass Boilers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Domestic Battery Storage Units | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
District Heating Connections | 554 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 2 |
Solar Thermal Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Home Energy Scotland Loans and Cashback
2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | 2021-2022 | |
Gas Boilers | 569 | 604 | 394 | 221 | 176 |
Electric Storage Heaters | 19 | 27 | 21 | 10 | 9 |
(Heat Pumps (Air Source/Ground Source/Water Source and ASHP hybrids | 258 | 426 | 531 | 732 | 1187 |
Oil Boilers | 58 | 69 | 18 | 33 | 20 |
Solar PV | 69 | 336 | 176 | 224 | 354 |
LPG Boilers | 10 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 1 |
Biomass Boilers | 40 | 48 | 50 | 37 | 50 |
Domestic Battery Storage Units | 0 | 82 | 88 | 151 | 225 |
District Heating Connections | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Solar Thermal Systems | Numbers included in Solar PV | ||||