UK Gas Industry Fights Against Heat Pumps

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Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group

Over the past two years, the Energy and Utilities Association (EUA) has paid a public affairs firm to generate hundreds of articles and interviews to lobby the UK government on energy policy.

The PR campaign subjects heat pumps to intense criticism. Powered by electricity, heat pumps are currently set to play a key role in decarbonising heating and replacing gas boilers, which heat around 85 percent of Britain’s homes and account for 15 percent of greenhouse gas emissions nationwide.

https://www.desmog.com/2023/07/20/revealed-media-blitz-against-heat-pumps-funded-by-gas-lobby-group/

Edited July 21, 2023 by placeholder

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And in related news:

 

How France surged ahead with heat pump installation

A combination of grants for householders, subsidies for businesses and a strong domestic electricity market has allowed France to surge ahead with the installation of the energy-efficient heat pumps in homes, a new report shows.

France has increased its rate of heat pump installation by 34 percent in the past two years, with 3.1 million pumps installed in 2021 and 2022 alone - a rate unmatched in any European nation.

While France still lags behind the countries that were the earliest adopters of heat pumps - Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Estonia - it now has the 6th highest percentage of homes with a heat pump in the EU, and if present trends continue this will number will rapidly expand.

https://www.thelocal.fr/20230719/how-france-surged-ahead-with-heat-pump-installation

 

The article goes on to say that French installations of heat pumps outnumber UK installations by a mere 10 to 1 ratio.

[thaibeachlovers]

Sounds like they are doing what capitalists always do. Do we expect them to promote an alternative?

 

BTW, if electricity is produced by burning fossil fuel, where is the benefit?

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1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Sounds like they are doing what capitalists always do. Do we expect them to promote an alternative?

 

BTW, if electricity is produced by burning fossil fuel, where is the benefit?

Energy Trends
 UK, January to March 2023

Renewable generation reached a record share of 47.8 per cent of total 
generation, up from 5.8 per cent in the same quarter of 2010. Renewable 
generation was boosted with a new offshore wind record of 19.2 per cent up 
from 0.6 per cent in the same quarter of 2010.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1165986/Energy_Trends_June_2023.pdf