UK government scraps plan to ban sale of gas boilers by 2035 | Green building
UK government scraps plan to ban sale of gas boilers by 2035 | Green building
‘Future homes standard’ will not mandate replacing boilers with environmentally friendly alternative
Whilst I fully support diminishing gas as a heating source, it was never going to work.
Houses in Britain are too inefficient for heat pumps. We needed to have listened to Insulate Britain, and that's what Labour should be focusing on instead of forcing heat pumps.
This was something the Lib Dems focussed on during the 2010 coalition. Many older houses had loft insulation installed for free, greatly increasing efficiency. I wish more people voted Lib Dems.
That's not how this works. Even without decent insulation, a heat pump is still the most efficient way to warm a home. I have shit insulation in my house; the heat pump is my only source of warmth and it does a damn fine job.
it was never going to work.
I'd rather have a ten year target and fail to hit it, than have no target.
There are much better 10 year targets to have. Too many 10 year targets dilutes them all and soon people don't pay attention and so you fail them all.
As such I agree - everything I know about the UK (I'm an American who has never been there so not much!) says their insulation levels are world leading pathetic. Fixing insulation would make a much larger difference than just about anything they could do as such I would (again as an outsider who doesn't know UKs problems) place insulation as what should be a top priority because of how much larger the impact it would have. A 60% boiler (something 50 years old) in a well insulated house would use similar energy to a heat pump in an uninsulated house (there are so many variables in that statement that you cannot actually find any comparison to verify it)
Starmer and Co are u-turning on something, must be a day ending in Y