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Baroness Griffin of Princethorpe (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 22 April 2026

Debate

Low-carbon Heat Networks

Contribution

I thank my noble friend the Minister and welcome the warm homes plan, but we need ambition. Only infrastructure heats homes. Clean, low-carbon heat networks can match gas boiler costs. Instead of every house having its own gas boiler, you have one central source of heat—a big heat pump, a river, a disused coal mine or even a data centre—and you pipe that heat through insulated underground pipes to thousands of homes. I ask my noble friend: when do the Government intend to treat heat networks as essential national infrastructure?

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