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Heat Batteries: Housing |
| Question ID: |
1813582 |
| UIN: |
60673 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-17 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5248 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Luke Murphy
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| Asking Member handle: |
LukeMLabour
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@LukeMLabour
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of the potential role of heat batteries in homes that are unsuitable for a heat pump. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-25 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5099 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Miatta Fahnbulleh
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Miatta Fahnbulleh
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| Answer text: |
Though heat batteries can utilise time-of-use tariffs, do not require outside space and can be cheaper to install, they are less efficient than heat pumps. If heat batteries do not have sufficient storage capacity, they could draw electricity at peak time... |
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| Answering body ID: |
215 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero |
| Tweeted: |
true |