People say heat pumps don't work in older houses. But Tim Adams has proved them wrong – and all it took was thousands of pounds and two years of tweaking. Now he saves £5 a week. It'll pay for itself by the time he's 107.
Heat pumps may never be cheaper than gas boilers, Ed Miliband has admitted as Labour sneaks a new boiler tax through Parliament that will push up prices.
According to Labour, "all families deserve the security of a home they can afford to heat". If the party really believed that, says Ben Pile, it would drop its commitment to over-priced green energy and ramp up the gas.
Heat-pump sales in Europe plummeted by 47% in the first half of the year, as the price of gas dropped, the cost of living rose and fewer households switched from gas boilers.
