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Heat Pump Investment Accelerator Competition - Round 2
Funding
Up to £30,000,000
Deadline
5 August 2026
Location
England
Applications
Applications closed
Overview
The Heat Pump Investment Accelerator Competition offers up to £30 million per project to build or expand heat pump manufacturing in England. The total programme is worth £90 million across all projects. You can use the money to build new factories or upgrade existing buildings for heat pump production. This includes manufacturing heat pumps themselves or their components like thermal storage systems. The deadline for Round 2 is 5 August 2026. This is a major investment opportunity for manufacturers looking to enter or expand in the heat pump market.
Requirements to check
Who can apply:
Key requirements:
- Must manufacture heat pumps or heat pump components
- Must involve construction of new factories or expansion/re-tooling of existing buildings
This summary may not include every exclusion. Check the full eligibility rules, including who and what the funder will not support.
This grant is for manufacturing businesses that want to make heat pumps or heat pump components in England. You could be building a completely new factory or upgrading an existing building for heat pump production. It is designed for significant manufacturing investments, not small-scale operations.
Regions
Awards published
1,339
Typical award
£221,006
Most awards
£52,220 to £856,705
Most funded region
London
44 awards in 2025, down from 480 the year before.
Recent awards include Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (£40,000, 2025), Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (£33,561, 2025) and Wolverhampton City Council (£1,732,795, 2025).
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Full details from Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Heat Pump Investment Accelerator Competition (HPIAC), worth up to £90 million in total, aims to bring forward investment in the UK heat pump manufacturing supply chain. It is open to proposals to manufacture heat pumps and/or heat pump components (including thermal storage that can be paired with a heat pump) to support the construction of new factories or the expansion, re-tooling, re-working or re-purposing of existing buildings.
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