Households delaying the switch to heat pumps risk a £2,000 spike in energy bills as the shift to Net Zero drives an exodus from the gas network. The Telegraphhas the details.
But with heat pump numbers forecast to rise, the energy watchdog Ofgem has predicted the bills paid by those who stick with their gas boilers risk spiralling.
This is because the cost of maintaining the gas network’s 174,000 miles of pipes and pumps will be spread across ever-fewer customers.
According to Ofgem’s modelling, charges for those who stick with gas will rise relatively slowly through the 2020s and 2030s but then jump tenfold in the space of a few years during the 2040s, to at least £2,000 per year and likely continue to rise.
That compares to an average of £170 paid per year in charges by the 23 million households with gas boilers today.
The surge in bills will take off when the number of people ditching gas heating reaches a tipping point, according to documents published by Ofgem.
At that stage, gas network costs will become so high that they cause a stampede of disconnections. …
The average cost of installing an air source heat pump is about £13,000, according to data from industry standards body MCS. …
Alongside the issue of gas network charges, Ofgem has also warned that there is currently no plan for the physical shutdown and decommissioning of the gas distribution networks themselves. …
Ofgem has not yet estimated the cost of doing this. But a separate study published by the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) last year found it could cost up to £74 billion, about £2,600 per household.
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Hester
5 months ago
Couple of questions have any of these people in the reshuffle actually been elected..
Have any of them worked in anything or anywhere else not involved with government, pr,politics or lobbying?
Or are they just another bunch of club parasites
In much the same vein, is Ms Gray’s new job something that was already covered by existing staff or have they just created a new non-job to prevent the indignity of a constructive dismissal claim? (Spoiler alert I think we know the answer. The answer to most hurty-feelings in the public sector always seems to be an additional dollop of taxpayers’ money.)
Sounds like a non-job to keep her in the tent.
A word salad. Which regions and what nations?
Was there a recruitment process?
Did she pass EDI specifications?
I assume a peerage will also be involved.
I suspect no party wants to read her memoirs.
A chair shuffling exercise at great cost to the taxpayers. What a surprise.
“envoy for regions and nations?”
WTF are they on about? This is not the United States of America this is little old Blighty. More “devolution” on the way. More devolved “assemblies” comprising carefully chosen pigs more equal than the rest of us but at yet more cost to taxpayers. In other words more controls and greater impoverishment.
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Couple of questions have any of these people in the reshuffle actually been elected..
Have any of them worked in anything or anywhere else not involved with government, pr,politics or lobbying?
Or are they just another bunch of club parasites
In much the same vein, is Ms Gray’s new job something that was already covered by existing staff or have they just created a new non-job to prevent the indignity of a constructive dismissal claim? (Spoiler alert I think we know the answer. The answer to most hurty-feelings in the public sector always seems to be an additional dollop of taxpayers’ money.)
Our elected Members of Parliament have their paymasters..
There is no Democracy…
Notice who’s received the most…. The Education Secretary….
Option C I think.
Sounds like a non-job to keep her in the tent.
A word salad. Which regions and what nations?
Was there a recruitment process?
Did she pass EDI specifications?
I assume a peerage will also be involved.
I suspect no party wants to read her memoirs.
She looks ” white ” to me…oh; dear.
A chair shuffling exercise at great cost to the taxpayers. What a surprise.
“envoy for regions and nations?”
WTF are they on about? This is not the United States of America this is little old Blighty. More “devolution” on the way. More devolved “assemblies” comprising carefully chosen pigs more equal than the rest of us but at yet more cost to taxpayers. In other words more controls and greater impoverishment.
Off-T
https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2024/03/majestic-wine-brexit/#:~:text=The%20overhaul%20means%20the%20amount,the%2012.5%25%20ABV%20duty%20rate.
More bloody interference intended to screw taxpayers.
Kneel and his bunch of thieving, treasonous parasites are determined to kill the hospitality sector.
Rats getting off Shagger Starmer’s sinking ship.
And what will the “regions and nations” think of it?
My bet is, is that she hasn’t been signed by L’Oréal
They say your inner self becomes etched on your face as you get older…
A nice lesson for Ms Gray that “what goes around, comes around.”
Keir-Ching! will get the same lesson in due course.