Heat-pump sales in Europe plummeted by 47% in the first half of the year, as fewer households switched from gas boilers. The Telegraph has more.
Just 765,000 heat pumps were sold in 2024 across the 13 European countries that represent 80% of the market, the European Heat Pump Association said.
Over the same period in 2023, 1.44 million heat pumps were sold in countries including France, Italy, Germany and Sweden.
It means fewer than 1.5 million heat pumps are likely to be sold in 2024, which is the lowest level since 2019.
Sales were hit by dropping gas prices, which soared after Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022, wavering government subsidies and the cost of living crisis.
After the war began, the EU set a target of installing at least 10 million more heat pumps by 2027 as part of efforts to lessen its dependence on Russian gas but a subsequent boom in sales is now over.
The U.K. Government is reported to be planning to introduce heat-pump targets in Britain next year in what has been branded a “boiler tax” on households.
Homeowners in countries such as Germany rebelled against government drives to install more of the green technology, which is expensive to set up, during the cost of living crisis.
Olaf Scholz’s under-fire coalition has since watered down its proposals to make heat pumps compulsory from 2024 in the face of public anger.
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Looks and sounds like the German ptb should be dusting off the old ww2 ss uniforms for their next party convention!
Small black clip on moustaches available at the door!
More like the old Communists of the DDR. People remember them in the Eastern Lande,and that is part of the reason they vote for the ‘Faaaar Right’ AfD.
The Germans just aren’t world class at fudging things like us here in the UK. They are too rational.
We on the other hand are world leaders at proclaiming two opposing things and carrying on quite happily. We are pragmatists.
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
“Rational” ——-Do you think covering a beautiful country in 40,000 huge industrial turbines and hoping to soon have 55,000 of them is the work of rational human beings?
Absolutely. A lot of money is made in this way.
Do you mean having all those turbines is rational because they make money for people or do you agree with me it is irrational to cover a country in this clutter?
I mean that the people operating the turbines have a perfectly rational interest in the money they’re getting because of this. That they must be built is demanded by a law which came into force under Merkel and as all mainstream parties agree with the climate change agenda, ordinary people don’t have any input into this process. All they can do to express their opposition to it is vote for a party opposed to it. The largest of these is the AfD and not even the AfD stands a realistic chance to influence actual government decisions for the forseeable future.
As one of the people in the climate movie put it: Climate change hoax is a bad term. It should really be called a scam. And scams work because the victims can’t help it.
I think there is a not insignificant correlation between rationalism and disregard for aesthetic beauty.
Perfidious Albion.
If only there was an EU wide election in June where those opposed to the Nut zero nonsense could vote for Parties opposing Nut zero. Even the EU could not ignore a 70% plus anti vote which was enough to see off Varadkhar.
Are you sure?
The Irish simply got confused and put the cross on the wrong box. It is an easy mistake to make.
They are Irish!
I had my doubts as I was typing my original message!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/2000-elderly-pawns-of-the-eco-nutters/
The 2,000 Swiss witches and the recently formulated new law on climate management passed by the ECHR.
There can be no question that the only sane action wrt the ECHR is to leave the Council of Europe or – even better – disestablish it altogether. Assuming the climate change CO₂ narrative was true, there’s absolutely nothing the government of Switzerland could do to improve the global situation in this respect short of declaring war on China, India and the USA and invading all three countries with armed forces in order to make them cut their CO₂ emissions and the chances of success wouldn’t exactly be great. This means the court ruling is outright disingenious.
And in doing so create even more C02, maybe even unclear, but don’t worry about any of that.
Neither of which will reduce CO2 output if the electricity is generated with gas or coal. Fortunately Germany’s neighbour, France, is happy for now to sell excess nuclear generated electricity to idiots who trashed their own nuclear power capability. However, when the EU rules about EVs start to bite in France they won’t have spare electricity to sell – which will royally screw up Germany meeting it’s Climate Protection Act requirements.
This is what happens when Ideology trumps common sense. But the pretend to save the planet house will all come tumbling down
You can live in cloud cuckoo land. You can pretend you are In Alice in Wonderland. You can Follow the Yellow Brick Road, but in the end there is only one world you are going to have to live in ——-The REAL ONE. ——-Reality has this very nasty habit of giving you a proverbial uppercut and knocking some sense into you. For all of these phony planet savers, Mike Tyson is winding up the big uppercut for you, and the sooner the better so we can get back to living in the real world.
Never tested it but some experienced street fighters swear by the open palm heel strike.
And the circus rolls on, as the sun weakens and we fall into 30 years of endless winters here in Northern Europe. I guess that’ll solve the immigration crisis. They’ll all be clambering back into their boats as the frostbite sets in.
Just one black shirt and an arm band away from doing it all over again.
Jawohl mein führer.
King Canute has left the building.
I do hope he is correct in his final paragraph, but there is a lot of pain to come before then.
Log burners in Scotland, anyone?