The government should in my view be investing much more to insulating houses, installing heat pumps, and installing solar panels with house batteries. These measures should be within reach of all households.
Solar panels and batteries at the moment are paying back in about 7 years and that is without any government grant, you can potentially get it down to 5 with a bit more risk taken on with not tier 1 kit and installers. Or put another way you pay up front for the next 25 years to pay 8p a KWh (instead of ~35p).
Comparatively I can’t make a heatpump do anything but cost more for heating over the next 25 years, it never pays off in its lifetime. An air to air heatpump however should be equivalent to a boiler but they cost about 1/3 of the to water ones which seem to be enormously overpriced compared to other countries that do something similar (Norway).
I did a breakdown/digest of the new ECO+ initiative a while back.
And while it was functionally useless for me (no allowance for DIY materials), it was definitely targeting the low hanging fruit (thermostats, loft insulation, CWI, EWI)
The government should in my view be investing much more to insulating houses, installing heat pumps, and installing solar panels with house batteries. These measures should be within reach of all households.
Solar panels and batteries at the moment are paying back in about 7 years and that is without any government grant, you can potentially get it down to 5 with a bit more risk taken on with not tier 1 kit and installers. Or put another way you pay up front for the next 25 years to pay 8p a KWh (instead of ~35p).
Comparatively I can’t make a heatpump do anything but cost more for heating over the next 25 years, it never pays off in its lifetime. An air to air heatpump however should be equivalent to a boiler but they cost about 1/3 of the to water ones which seem to be enormously overpriced compared to other countries that do something similar (Norway).
Bloody tell me about it.
I did a breakdown/digest of the new ECO+ initiative a while back.
And while it was functionally useless for me (no allowance for DIY materials), it was definitely targeting the low hanging fruit (thermostats, loft insulation, CWI, EWI)