Government's Heat and Buildings Strategy

[kenneal - lagger]

The figures in the government's Heat and Building Strategy don't add up. They are talking about delivering 600,000 heat pumps a year by 2028 but that means that they will have to install them in 27 million homes in the 22 years to 2050 which comes out at 1.23 million homes per year!

Then they are proposing to do it on a market led basis so a standard distribution curve should be applied to the problem. They will slowly ramp up to 600,000 houses per year, peak at somewhere near 5 million and then ramp down again. So they will have to ramp up the number of people to do the work to stupid numbers and then ten year after they have started they will have to start making them redundant. Ludicrous!!

They need a government organised scheme to iron out the peaks of demand and make the work more efficient. They need to do what the government did during WW2 when government got industry together to organise the work efficiently to maximise production and output. The market didn't work in WW2 and it won't work now.

The need to organise the work into street sized contracts to design, install, check and give after sales service on insulation, air tightness, MVHR and heat pump installation with an interest free loan to pay for the entirety of the work with repayments structured to come out of the reduced cost of heat and to be paid for through the electricity bill as would have been the case with the old Green Deal. The government are also going to have to pay the cost of training all the designers, supervisors, installers and checkers as they aren't going to pay for those costs themselves after all the fly by night government schemes which building industry professionals have shelled out for over the years only to see the government stop the scheme.