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Deeply misleading headline from the BBC "Energy grid investment of £28bn to push up household bills" with a photo showing an electricity pylon
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp84yymxpjno
Only more than halfway down the article do they mention that 64% of the money will be spent on fossil gas infrastructure, which will become a stranded asset when/if we fully decarbonise our energy supply... 🤬
I wonder how many houses you could transition to heat pumps for £17.92B? It looks as if a typical air-source heat pump costs around £10K on average, so that's around 1.8M houses. That's around 10% of the total number of houses with gas heating.
I wonder if that would reduce the stress on the gas grid enough to make the upgrades unnecessary.
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