Earth Notes: General Bibliography (zanetti2024encourage)

• [zanetti2024encourage] Oliver Zanetti Overcoming barriers for newly trained heat pump installers (accessed 2024-02-12), Nesta, 2024-01-10 (www) (BibTeX).
  abstract

  Over 2023, we tested an offer to newly trained heat pump installers of either bursaries or monthly payments that aimed to encourage them to make the move into the home retrofit sector.
  note

  [Quote: "This project tested whether relatively small financial payments would help encourage motivated gas installers to move into the heat pump sector. We found, ultimately, that it did not." Quote: "Training and financial incentives aren't enough to get heating engineers working in retrofit ... Small, gas-focused businesses have challenges finding heat pump customers ... Not all trainees wanted to get into retrofit in the first place ..." Quote: "... many heating installers still subscribe to certain myths such as the view that heat pumps are not suitable for older homes ..."]