Question reference: S6W-05805
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 20 January 2022
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Current status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 3 February 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether reintroducing LPG into the Warmer Homes Scotland scheme, in the form of bio-LPG, would provide a route to low-carbon heating for off-grid properties.
Answer
Our homes and workplaces account for around a fifth of Scotland’s total greenhouse gas emissions. We can and must make very significant progress towards eliminating these emissions over the next decade and reduce them to zero by 2045.
As set out in the Heat in Buildings Strategy, we see a limited role for bioenergy in domestic heating, in line with advice from the UK’s Climate Change Committee.
Warmer Homes Scotland provides heating systems and insulation measures to enable these systems. Warmer Homes Scotland does not provide fuel to customers and, where a heating system technology allows for a choice of fuels, the scheme cannot influence the customer’s ongoing choices. Scottish Government has no plans to reintroduce LPG heating systems to the list of measures available under Warmer Homes Scotland.
Households eligible for assistance under Warmer Homes Scotland will be offered low-carbon systems, where these are technically appropriate for the property. Options that may be of particular benefit to households living in rural and island areas that are not served by the gas grid include High Heat Retention Electric Storage Heating Systems, Air Source Heat Pumps, Ground Source Heat Pumps and microgeneration measures such as Micro-hydro and Micro-wind. Domestic battery storage systems are now also available to support Electric Storage Heating Systems along with Solar PV