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Heresy? or pragmatic engineering? - a suggestion for the a segment of the 'failed boiler/distress purchase' market'

 
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Topic starter 03/06/2026 10:05 am  

Posted by: @batpred
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Thanks. I am struggling to reconcile net0 with policymakers settling for reactive action from the DNOs. Can anything else but preemptive work from the DNOs be appropriate policy, not even considering the uncertainty that this is adding to scaling the deployment of heatpumps? Plus current practice is clearly reducing the likelyhood of retrofit of a heatpump by the home owner after a boiler failure. 

I think its quite likely a failure to think it through in detail from the consumer view, rather than being deliberate. 

Decision making, I suspect, is largely influenced by industry input and the consumer voice is not strongly heard, other than through 'consumer groups' who are concerned about consumer rights but don't seem always to have their finger on the pulse of practicality.  This level of detail only really comes to light when you 'step through' a problem and get inputs 'from the coalface', as we sometimes do here.  As it happens I have personal experience of politicians being very good at interrogating legislation at this practical level, but whether this happens for government regulation Im not so sure. 

Furthermore, people that can both do the 'blue sky thinking' and at the same time get 'down and dirty' with the detail are very rare, which I think is unlikely to help with crafting regulation which in practice works and fighting those who simply want to ensure that the regulation suits their own needs not the needs of the greater community.  Also remember that DNOs are for-profit monopolies, so if we want them to do anything that doesn't enhance their profits we have to pay them.  

Its a challenge and one to which I cant honestly see an easy answer.  Unfortunately humans aren't as good at things as we sometimes like to think!


This post was modified 6 hours ago 6 times by JamesPa

4kW peak of solar PV since 2011; EV and a 1930s house which has been partially renovated to improve its efficiency. 7kW Vaillant heat pump.


   
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