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UK publishes roadmap for switching homes, transport and industry to clean electricity

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12 Nov 2026, 7:07 pm IST1 min read

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The UK published a clean electrification roadmap on 12 November covering homes, transport and industry. The energy department says electricity demand could more than double by 2050 and describes work to give grid connection priority to projects that are ready and needed.

For housing, the roadmap restates the existing Warm Homes Plan’s ambition of installing 450,000 heat pumps a year by 2030 and putting solar panels on up to three million more homes. These are policy ambitions for deployment.

The department says expanding clean power generation and preparing the electricity network need to proceed alongside the shift away from fossil fuels in everyday energy use.

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Credit: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero via GOV.UK · © Crown copyright 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0 · Summarised/translated by KROV · Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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