The Government’s plans to help Britons heat their homes and switch to greener technology such as heat pumps have been pushed back into next year in a blow to the energy industry.

Rachel Reeves has committed £15bn to Ed Miliband’s warm homes plan, which was originally supposed to be published in the autumn before being delayed until December.

Details of how the money will be spent will not now be published until January, The i Paper understands. Energy sector insiders have previously warned that the delays are slowing the rollout of heat pumps – intended eventually to provide the heating for nearly all the UK’s homes – because of uncertainty over whether the existing £7,500 subsidy for installing one will continue or not. New Feature

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