The UK’s Clean Heat Market Mechanism is the first policy of its kind: a market-based instrument requiring heating appliance manufacturers to support heat pump deployment. This case study traces how the UK designed and launched the scheme, how the heat pump market has responded, and what lessons it offers decision-makers considering similar tools.
This Agora Energiewende report finds that an EU Clean Heat Market Instrument would enhance the effectiveness of other planned policies and could therefore help drive Europe’s heating transition post-2030.
Heat pumps, a critical technology for clean energy systems, are poised to become the most important technology for heating decarbonization. Currently, the vast majority of heat is provided by fossil fuels.
CLASP assessed the viability of introducing water efficiency policies in the world’s top-18 carbon-emitting economies in the appliances sector, focusing specifically on policies for faucets and showerheads. CLASP ranked each country by the relative urgency and potential for impactful policies based on factors such as hot water consumption, pressure on water resources, and projected population increases. CLASP also assessed the viability of successfully implementing water efficiency policies, based on prerequisites such as existing water or efficiency policies.
In May 2021, CLASP introduced Mepsy, a new planning tool designed to help policymakers, researchers, and others assess the climate and energy impacts of appliance energy efficiency policy scenarios.
This report proposes a low-barrier, least-cost policy package to rapidly deploy efficient space heating and cooling solutions in the United States. It aims to “raise the floor” for electric space heating in the residential HVAC market, delivering 45 million new installations over 10 years and paving the way for more ambitious decarbonization efforts.
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