The cost of electricity

[Nick]

In yesterdays TG, Kevin McCloud, him of Grand Designs came out against heat pumps saying they were another Gov "pratfall".  Far better to give the grants for better insulation but apart from better windows how do you do that with older cavity wall homes?  (as we have talked about on the Forum).

Dont remember him mentioning that      

Nothing wrong with heat pumps IN THE RIGHT CONTEXT. McCloud wasn't against heat pumps per se, he was against treating them as a magic bullet. His quote from the DT (12/03/22) was:

"I love heat pumps, they're wonderful machines. They really are and I'm a big fan of them. But where you start with a building is fabric first."

The insanity is putting heat pumps in buildings that aren't suited for them - as the heat is gradual, you need well insulated properties to start with - no point at all retrofitting a heat pump into an unsuitable property - our heat pump is in a recent self-build (well, complete gutting & rebuild of original buildings whilst massively increasing the footprint), so totally appropriate for the property.

Fix the insulation issues first.. Then consider energy sources.