By Paul Homewood
Needless to say, it will be neither smart or secure.
And now they want remote control over your heat pumps:
So when it is cold and the wind is not blowing, off will go your heat pumps.
They will no doubt argue that it will only occur for an hour or so at peak times, but when we are short of power for days on end, this argument will go out the window.
The whole idea will in any event be counter productive. If people wake up to a cold house, they will switch electric fires on instead.
If every home turns on a 2-bar fire at 7.00 am, that will add 50 GW of demand. And it won’t stop there. Fan heaters will go in bathrooms and bedrooms as well.
Currently nearly all of this heating comes from gas, which is cheap and effective. It will be hard enough swapping this gas for the electricity needed for heat pumps.
But electric fires will use three times the power that a heat pump would.
This all has the trappings of a government digging itself ever deeper into the hole. Every decision they make simply makes matters worse.
Meanwhile it’s yet another reason not to buy a heat pump.