By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
From the Telegraph:
As Ian says, it’s beyond parody!
It actually conjures up images of the Soviet Union’s Heroes of Labour, who exceeded harvest targets in their tractors, or produced record numbers of tanks!
But it does pose real problems for the heat pump rollout. Currently there are only around a quarter of a million heat pumps installed in the UK, with just 27,000 fitted in 2019. I suspect most of these were wither subsidised or installed by local councils with the help of government grants.
The latest government wheeze offers £450 million over three years for boiler upgrades, which is enough for only about 30,000 heat pumps a year. It is hard to see installations going above this level without much greater government subsidies, money which it does not have.
There is therefore little incentive for any qualified heating engineer/plumber to retrain, given there will be virtually no work for them to do. Given that heat pump installers must also be qualified plumbers, you cannot simply train them up from scratch overnight.
Worse still, if the plans to ban new gas boilers from 2035 go ahead, many existing central heating engineers will simply retire before then, or simply live off service work. This will mean the labour pool for retraining will be much smaller by then.
In the meantime, who is going to train to install gas boilers, which will be obsolete soon?
This whole saga shows just what can go wrong when governments try to centrally control economies Soviet style.
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