C++ Wage Slave1d ago

BBC News - Heat pumps for all new homes in England and plug-in solar in green tech drive
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czjw7klkjm2o

It's a pity that it took Trump's Iran war to get us to this point, but it's still great news for the environment.

#HeatPumps #SolarPanels #PlugInSolar

Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech drive

Solar panels that can be plugged in at home could be available to buy in supermarkets in the coming months.

BBC News
Show threadMarjorieR1d ago
@CppGuy something that should have happened in 2016 and didn't happen (thanks Dave Cameron) and has now been put off by another year (this was supposed to happen in 2027 not 2028). Meanwhile most new houses will be sold with gas boilers and no PV.
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@marjolica

Agreed, it's too little, too late, given the scale and urgency of the #ClimateCrisis. I'd also like to see meaningful subsidies for rooftop solar. But, at this point, I'll take any decarbonisation I can get. And, on the bright side, boosting the number of heat pumps sold from 2028 onwards should bring economies of scale that make them cheaper than ours were. That should help to drive the retrofit market.

Show threadMarjorieR
@CppGuy of course one change that they should get onto immediately is decoupling the price of electricity from the price of gas.
The price should only increase for the proportion for generation that comes from gas, with the current marginal pricing policy it just goes up in proportion to the gas price with most of that going to profit.
Ths would immediately transform the economics of heat pumps which with current fuel prices are only marginally cost effective.
With gas prices going though the roof this is the obvious, if not total solution, rather than just faffing about with proposals for various subsidy schemes to limit the impact of the gads price rise on the cost of living.
Mar 24 at 8:26amWeb
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@marjolica

Absolutely. Before moving to Octopus, we paid extra for a decade in order to get green energy. Now the price of gas is going up and, guess what, we're going to pay extra.

We should price fossil fuels out of the market.