Gas boiler ban dropped but homes could still be forced to switch to heat pumps

Absolutely the right decision, the ban for new builds is already in place this year to ‘27. But banning replacements on the existing gas makes no sense since the network is gearing up for hydrogen transition.

The government should not tell developers what technologies to use for new builds, just set the targets and let the designers find the right solutions. Heat pumps are not the only options.

Pleased to hear that the ban has been dropped. I've no intention of switching to heat pumps.

They would probably be stolen with a week of installing them.

It’s outrageous the taxpayer having to p@ss £7,500 up the wall for every heat pump installed. No wonder the country is approaching £3 trillion in debt. Just another useless solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

Heat pumps in 100 year old terraced houses? That’s just madness, yet it’s a large proportion of rental properties in the uk.

Reply to the comment left by Dylan Morris at 06/01/2025 - 14:47
For the word "subsidy" insert the word "taxpayer hard earned cash".
For "net zero" or "climate change" insert the word "latest cult".

80% of people with current accounts have less than £500 gbp in their bank accounts at any one time ( Source : GE Money Surveys of 1990 and 2017).
This for many owners of old housing stock heat pumps plus insulation ,plus radiators will cost far more than they can afford in the push to nett zero.
We now have 1.4% power capacity over peak demand and need 3 large nuclear power stations each of which takes 15 years ( 3 Parliaments ) to build.
This need cannot be met because there isn't the money,renewables only supply intermittent power.
There is a shortage of heat pump installers to install the heat pumps and Labour is unlikely to be re elected in 2029 so these proposals are dead in the water.

Reply to the comment left by Dylan Morris at 06/01/2025 - 14:47
if they used some of the £11.6bn they have promised in overseas climate aid, we could all have them for free!

This is all very academic. Labour WONT be in power in 2035. At this rate they wont be in charge in 2029 so EPCs is also a bit pointless to sweat about.

Reply to the comment left by David Lawrenson at 06/01/2025 - 16:21
What, you don't believe in climate change? Even with all the floods, fires, changing temperatures around you. Go to Wikipedia and look up Exxon Mobil.. Climate change denial section " In 2023, Science journal published a paper reporting that the global warming projections and models created by ExxonMobil's own scientists between 1977 and 2003 had "accurately" projected and "skillfully" modeled global warming due to fossil fuel burning, and had reasonably estimated how much CO2 would lead to dangerous warming. The authors of the paper concluded: "Yet, whereas academic and government scientists worked to communicate what they knew to the public, ExxonMobil worked to deny it " they spent millions on confusion. Would you still doubt a fossil fuel company who did the research themselves?

Not at all.
Professor Richard S Lindzen of MIT the top atmospheric scientist in the world does not believe in "Climate Change" and a careful reading of each of the IPCC reports shows that each alarming scenario( they are not predictions) is preceded by the word "if".
This as in "If" global sea temperatures rise by X or Y degrees then climate catastrophe follows etc.
Professor Irena Zharvove of Northumbria University has clearly shown that far from warming that we are in the "Grand Solar Minimum " a natural sun cycle of minimum activity which happens every 200 to 300 years.
The last one occurred during the time of Charles Dickens the novelist when it was possible to drive a fully laden coach and horses across the river Thames which was frozen over with very thick ice.
This Grand Solar Minimum or " Maunder Minimum " will not end until 2055,30 years from today.
The various forest fires we have seen in Australia and places like Greece and Essex were caused by a combination of arson and Eucalyptus trees full of gas being too close to houses as a result of zoning laws not being followed with houses too close to rain forests.
The Essex fires were caused by sparks from chineyvues used by East End people barbecuing too close to the Essex border.
In addition we have the American and Russian militaries interfering with the weather which they have been doing since before 1973 when it was used to extend the monsoon season by 3 months over the Ho Chi Minh trail over North Vietnam( Project Stormfury)
The USAAF paper " Owning the weather Full Spectrum Dominance" and " Weather as a Force Multiplier in 2025" dated August 1996 by Colonel Tammy J House,Ltd Colonel James BNear Jr and 5 more military people including LTC William B Shields is instructive.
In short we are being sold a puppy whereby "Climate Change" is being sold to us as a means to impose higher taxes to control a nonexistent problem.