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14/11/2025 5:17 pm  

Posted by: @jamespa
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For me at least, decarbonisation has be something of a revelation.

I agree.  My background is in financing major projects, and so now when retired I love to find new "projects" of my own to undertake (much to my wife's exasperation).  Hence the solar, batteries and ASHP over the last 3 years or so.

I can't help thinking that HMG's approach to marketing renewables has been typically wrong-headed.  If they had leaked that there was a new highly-efficient home heating system in the works - but you have to be on a special list of invitees to be eligible - then the popular press would have been all over it immediately demanding it be made available to the common man.

Then they could have said  - sorry, it's really great but we don't have enough skilled installers trained up yet, you'll have to wait n years before you can get on the list...

... the clamour would have escalated and there would be questions in parliament about setting up a Minister for ASHP Training and all manner of hullabaloo.

Job done.

Same for EVs.  They're much faster, smoother, quieter and cheaper to run.  But you can't have one yet.


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14/11/2025 5:23 pm  

@editor Perhaps it is just the way I read that but it seems to me that the MCS concern is for the installers and very little for the homeowner. Should I be surprised? Toodles.


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14/11/2025 6:14 pm  

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According to The Guardian, Rachel Reeves plans to limit heat pump grants so that only lower-income households can access them. In other words, most middle-class homeowners will lose eligibility for the £7,500 BUS subsidy.

This is the most dumbf*** move of a whole run of British DF moves that are going to have a really negative impact on decarbonisation.

First we need to stop the stereotypes - I'm not 'middle class' but I replaced my deceased gas boiler with a heat pump and took out a loan to do it. Without BUS that would've been impossible. 

I'm one of those people who qualified for ECO fitting due to low earnings but I couldn't get an ECO fitter to play because they make their money by forcing up the EPC bands and mine was going no further than it already was.

I also wanted to be in control and choose my heat pump and my fitters as far as possible.  ECO won't let you do that. It's the usual 'beggars can't be choosers' mentality this country loves so much. 

Everyone who gets ECO is a homeowner so it's income-based one way or another but quite selective. Shared ownership people can't fit heat pumps for example.

This means that if I move home I will never have another heat pump because of the above. I will be forced to go back to gas. That's so depressing. Meanwhile, my dream of owning an EV one day just slips away... 

As someone further up this thread said, the BUS was about incentivising heat pumps and decarbonisation not a bung. The grant is fixed on a house not a person so every installation is another property off the carbon list.

As some of you know, I'm working on a big Europe-wide decarbonisation research project and while it's still early stages I can tell you that compared to other countries Britain has the most chaotic, undefined, incoherent and bitty decarbonisation policies possibly out of the lot. It makes planning, investment and public comprehension impossible. 



   
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