March 15, 2023
Government announces new heat pump training grant

The Department for Energy Security & Net Zero has launched a new Heat Pump Training Grant to propel the move to cleaner energy usage in homes.
Over the next two years a total of £5 million will be available to support 10,000 plumbing and heating engineers in England upskill to become accredited to install heat pumps. Each person will be eligible for a grant of up to £500 towards their training costs.
“We’re excited about this new training grant initiative and have been working closely with the government, providing advice and guidance to ensure any training grants offered benefit those working in the plumbing and heating industry,” says Neil Collishaw, CEO at BPEC, “All BPEC’s heat pump qualifications have been included in the list of approved courses and we will be promoting this initiative to all our centres that offer training across England.”
BPEC is proud to have been a trailblazer in this field and for over a decade has developed and offered renewable training materials, courses, and qualifications for the Building Services Engineering sector, to fulfil our mission of ‘identifying and meeting the skills needs for the future’.
Training providers will need to apply to offer the grant.
More information on BPECs low carbon heating training provision can be found at https://bpec.org.uk/qualifications/renewables-qualifications/
More information regarding this government initiative can be found here.