Tag: Gas Boilers

Green Party leader Carla Denyer has admitted that she still has a gas boiler despite her party’s commitment to reach Net Zero by 2040.

The heat pump rollout is failing because people don't want them, the National Audit Office has warned. In 2022, gas boiler installations outnumbered heat pumps 27 times over.

Homeowners face being hit with a 'boiler tax' of around £120 per boiler as manufacturers attempt to offset the cost of the fines imposed by Government to coercively push the heat pump rollout.

Scots are to be forced to rip out their gas boilers and replace them with heat pumps within as little as two years of buying a home under "hugely expensive" plans unveiled by Humza Yousaf's Government.

Gas hobs and boilers are to be banned in all new homes in Oxford from 2025 under the council's radical Net Zero 2040 plans.

Shut down Britain's gas network, roll out heat pumps and ban all private vehicles from cities, the Government has been told by its National Infrastructure Commission.

Was anyone tempted by Sunak's raised offer of £7,500 for switching to a heat pump, asks Ysenda Maxtone Graham. "I don't think so" – because they're noisy, pricey and never get warm enough.

In the Government's increasingly farcical heat pump strategy, from next year manufacturers will be fined up to £5,000 for every heat pump they fail to sell below their quota.

Rishi Sunak is poised to ditch the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars and slow the phasing-out of gas boilers as he scales back costly green pledges.

A heating engineer has told the Daily Sceptic that with the approaching ban on gas and oil boilers, he can easily foresee the day when customers will be left without heating entirely because they can't afford a heat pump.