Domestic Air Source Heat Pump [image credit: UK Alternative Energy]
Another example of how ‘net zero’ dogma is going to be highly disruptive and expensive for energy customers, all in the name of appeasing climate obsessives.
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Installing a heat pump will require one in three homes to have an electricity upgrade, a power company has said.
Heat pumps and electric car chargers will mean a big increase in a household’s electricity demand, with many older properties requiring upgrades that can cost thousands of pounds, though most companies are planning to start “socialising” the cost by spreading it out among bills, says the Telegraph.
Western Power Distribution (WPD), which manages the electricity network for the Midlands, South Wales and the South West, said providing power to heat homes was one of the “biggest challenges” of the heat pump rollout.
“We anticipate that this will lead to the need for service upgrades for around a third of all heat pump installations,” the company said in its business plan, published in December.
Earlier this month The Telegraph reported that some households were being charged up to £15,000 to upgrade to a “three-phase” supply, which is needed by households with particularly large electricity needs.
In most cases households will need a smaller upgrade, to allow a supply of 80 or 100 amps, which can cost hundreds of pounds.
The supply required depends on the size of the property, how many people are living there and what other electrical appliances are installed.
Some households also have “looped” supplies meaning their homes are connected to neighbouring properties. These can be the most difficult to fix, with permission often required from neighbouring homes to dig in gardens and driveways in order to “de-loop” the cables.
Full article here.
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Daily Mail — Homes face up to £35,000 bill to go green: Energy firm warns one in three properties will need costly power supply upgrade BEFORE they can install heat pumps and electric car chargers
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Pay a fortune to have the electric supply upgraded.
Then pay a fortune have a heat pump installed.
Then pay a fortune to ‘top up’ the miserable winter output with more electricity.
Or
Stop voting for the same old idiots, elect independents and small party candidates who disagree with the netzero batshittery, and open up the Jackdaw oil and gas field ASAP.
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Pay a fortune . . . then depend on electricity being produced without releasing CO2, or having the CO2 captured. Which can’t be done.
So, in the end, you can’t use the heat pump, either. Heat pumps do NOT get you to Net Zero.
One wonders how much damage to the UK will government do before they are stopped.
As they crush the economy, tax revenue will slow. Maybe that will stop them. It’s all fun til they don’t have other people’s money to spend.
[…] One in three homes will need electricity boost for heat pumps to work […]
The cost is clearly lunatic but what’s the CO2 budget look like? Manufacture, installation, changes to supply, insulation and radiator manufacture and so on? Then there’s the additional back up generation from gas.
So after say 20 years, is there actually any reduction in CO2 emissions? I’m guessing not at all.
There are a few things that aren’t mentioned in all the talk about these heat pumps, a) where is all the reliable, very low cost electricity to run them coming from – wind and solar doesn’t meet the requirements, b) where are they going to put the necessary length of pipes to collect the ground heat for multi level tower blocks – they might as well use the standard reverse cycle air conditioning units but even they require wall space to mount the outside units.
Once they solve those problems and build the necessary coal fired power stations they might be getting somewhere. Untill then they would be better forgetting all this ‘net zero’ stupidity.
The whole point of all these nonsense projects is o transfer the consequences of the profligacy of the perpetrators onto the the public, breaking all the systems down that maintain the survival conveniences. Reduce everyone to abject survility–those that survive.
But they never learn from their own mistakes which always backfire, taking them with it.
Households forced to add Fast Chargers for their e-cars will need even larger upgrade — when enough houses on a residential distribution loop have heat pumps and car chargers, the entire loop and all the transformers will also need to be upgraded.
All heating costs have gone up during the energy crisis, which is why we enabled our hybrid, bivalent system running HVO and the air source heat pump to maximize our energy consumption: https://myhomefarm.co.uk/going-bivalent-ashp-hvo