@tf@CarolineLucas@simon_brooke
If electricity cost 4 times as much as gas per unit energy, I'd still be ahead with the heat pump - mine pump 4-5 times as much energy as they use and gas appliances aren't 100% efficient.
@DavidPenington and as @ericsfraga says, the only reason retail electricity is so ludicrously expensive in the UK is because its price is fixed at a multiple of the price of gas. The real economic cost of electricity is much less.
The market is rigged by a 'free market' #Tory government to suit the cartels. One wonders why.
@DavidPenington the recent Oxford study shows that typical heat pump efficiency in temperatures below 5C is ~2.7. Modern gas boilers are over 90% efficient — electricity would need to be no more than 2x more expensive not to lead to more fuel poverty in the UK. @simon_brooke Yes, electricity prices are artificially high, but current policies for the green transition are invariably made by the well off for the well off at the expense of those who can least afford it. It really needs to change.
@tf@DavidPenington Aye, what we really need in dense urban areas is not individual insallations of anything in individual homes, but district heating schemes.
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