So the government has quietly dropped its pledge to ban gas boilers in new homes by 2023. I guess not so quietly that no one noticed, though.
The point here is that we have people in power who are so blinded by their own hubris that they have decided to set targets that make them look good, but are impracticable in the real world. See, also, the ban on ICE vehicles by 2030.
Technology will develop at its own pace. Targets won’t make it develop any more quickly. It is what it is. Also, of course the grand plans for low energy electric heat pumps and hydrogen needs the relevant infrastructure in place. This takes time. Three years is so obviously over optimistic, that it was doomed for the outset. Hence someone making this point somewhere and the quiet withdrawal.
It’s also worth pointing out here that along with electric vehicles, electric heat pumps aren’t exactly a green option – it merely moves the problem elsewhere.
“The Future Homes Standard contains ambitious deadlines that pose enormous challenges for all parties involved including developers, suppliers, energy companies in terms of skills, design, energy infrastructure and the supply chain.
“We will continue to engage to ensure requirements are realistic and deliverable – but any proposals to advance the timetables already set out (for 2025) would cause significant concern.”
Well, quite. But politicians, eh?
This is what you get if you fill the HOC with proffessional politicians who have never had a real job. They have no clue about how the real world works, stuff just happens by magic. They think that the magic will carry on happening whatever ludicrous green policies they put into place.
They are too stupid to realise that the world doesn’t work on targets and diktats.
Given that government doesn’t work on that either, you’d think the penny would have dropped by now!
Electric Heat pumps are ~x5 more expensive than gas, inefficient, unreliable and expensive
Hitchens nails it
“It doesn’t matter how you vote… the Greens always win – as Britain looks more and more like the old East Germany”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8973423/PETER-HITCHENS
Gov’t should butt out and allow us to do as we want; especially in our homes (as long as neighbours can’t hear)
If someone ‘green’ energy, pay full cost for it same as organic food. No businesses of Gov’t to make us all subsidise it
There are power companies offering 100% renewable energy tariffs. This is clearly impossible so it has to be false advertising. I wish that they could do it in reality. Then the virtue signallers could sign up for power at double the price and have their power go off every time the wind stopped blowing. When they can’t charge their phone or their Tesla maybe reality might start encroaching upon their worldview.
Stoney, these 100% renewable energy companies operate on the same principle as ‘ConaMug(TM) Scotch Ltd.’. You pay more for it but it is supplied direct to your home.
Apparently they pour a tanker load of Glenfiddich into a reservoir with all the other water but you get 100% single malt out of your tap……
Dominic Lawson
Maybe Mr Lawson will write about how Boris and Sunak are obeying WEF Great Reset
https://youtu.be/CoCYYVmDbMU?t=5527