Improving boiler standards and efficiency

Consultation document replaced (7 February 2023)

Improving boiler standards and efficiency consultation document replaced. The text in Annex B was updated to match the wording for question 1 in the body of the text.

This consultation seeks views on a range of topics, including:

• proposals to improve boiler and heating system efficiency through improvements to minimum standards
• proposals to mandate that from 2026 all newly-installed gas boilers are ‘hydrogen-ready’
• the potential role of gas boiler-electric heat pump hybrids in heat decarbonisation in the 2020s and 2030s

These proposals aim to reduce domestic gas consumption, thereby lowering consumer bills and carbon emissions, improving our energy security, and preparing for the transition to low-carbon heating.

We would like views from consumers, installers, manufacturers and wider industry.

We have also published a consultation-stage Impact Assessment.

See the BEIS consultation privacy notice.