Question follow-through · 71536
Boilers: Batteries
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of battery enabled boilers could make on decarbonising domestic heating in smaller homes.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of battery enabled boilers could make on decarbonising domestic heating in smaller homes.
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2025
Answer published
Heat batteries, sometimes referred to as ‘battery enabled boilers’, can utilise time-of-use tariffs and do not require outside space; however, they are less efficient than heat pumps. Heat batteries could meet the needs of some smaller homes, however if t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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