Miliband and Rayner join forces to save net zero
Gas boilers in new homes will be banned as soon as next year under plans being spearheaded by Ed Miliband and Angela Rayner.
The energy and housing secretaries have joined forces on new rules for housebuilders, which will require newbuilds to have heat pumps and solar panels.
The Telegraph understands the new rules will be announced by Ms Rayner this summer, and are likely to be in force by next year.
Is there any fellow in that show who can pull things straight? They’re playing the old game in which they are experts, but it isn’t the game the country requires.
John Buchan - A Prince of the Captivity (1933)
10 comments:
"Keir, pet! I know it's bad, love, but just stop sobbing and take your hands away from your face for a bit....That's better. Do you need a tissue? Just stop going on about the elections, love, and listen to some good news for a change. Ed and I have had a brilliant idea about those new builds you've got me doing..."
There's a touch of Weird Ed about this.
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"new rules for housebuilders, which will require newbuilds to have heat pumps and solar panels." Like most of nut zero, they've been proven to be next to useless but the dogma must go on . . .
With the way heat pumps and solar panels are, there are going to be an awful lot of cold people living in newbuild houses. I can also envisage lots of newbuilds full of parafin and calor gas heaters.
Sam - ha ha, aren't they ghastly.
dearieme -ha ha, there is a touch of Weird Ed about it. He's the keeper attempting to show of his elephant in the room to all those viewers.
Jannie - and apartments will have problems, which might have helped the numbers but now they have managed to screw that up too.
Tammly - may as well buy a caravan and become a traveller.
I suppose the point of building houses that nobody will want to buy is that they can be used by "asylum seekers", "refugees" and other invaders.
I can imagine a lots of builders selling 'almost complete' houses with the new owners arranging their own gas boiler installs.
Either that or everybody is going to want to buy a flat in a block where solar cells and heat exchangers are impractical.
dearieme - with a bit of lateral thinking they could go back to prefabs for that purpose. Shove them up then do lots of stories about how pleased the new tenants are with their sustainable lifestyle because that's really why they came here.
DJ - the block of flats problem doesn't seem to have impinged much on official thinking. Lots of blocks are being built in Derby for example.
I had a friend who grew up in Minnesota. Cold in winter, eh? The whole town, he claimed, was heated by reject heat from the electricity generating station. For domestic households they didn't even meter your use - you just paid a standing charge.
dearieme - interesting - not something solar farms and wind turbines can offer.
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