Rollout of £150m heat pump scheme branded 'embarrassing' after installation target missed
Mike Foster, CEO of the trade body the Energy and Utilities Alliance, said: "It takes a certain type of genius to fail to give away £150m of taxpayers' money and this wretched scheme looks like it has done just that.
"When will the government actually listen to the people, the majority of whom simply cannot afford a heat pump, subsidised or not?"
6 comments:
I bet that the money miraculously disappears.
Equivalent to another few yards on the H2S boondoggle.
Doonhamer - I bet you are right.
Offering wealthy people lots of money, collected from poorer people, to install something that is too expensive for most.
If it was planned like that, then it was probably a softening-up exercise. "You can't burn gas, oil, or coal any more, but don't complain because some professionals and graduates had heat-pumps fitted some years ago, and now you are going to get them - good and hard..."
They could 'track and trace' the 150 mill...
That'd save some money - er - wouldn't it?
It's the mistake of cancelling incandescent light bulbs and expecting CFL to be an adequate replacement.
But with heat pumps we didn't need the EU to help with the bureaucracy. Perhaps we need to campaign to leave the "anything green is good, even if it's daft" mindset.
Sam - it must have been planned like that, it is too obviously impractical and unaffordable for that to have been overlooked. To my mind it begins to look oafish.
Scrobs - the trouble is they may track and trace it to a fleet of luxury motorhomes.
DJ - we certainly need a campaign to leave the "anything green is good, even if it's daft" mindset. It's an embedded mindset though, controlled by people who won't be pushed out of their comfort zones whatever goes wrong.
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