Comment on Burnham to scrap Starmer’s digital ID scheme in ‘reset of priorities’
toebert@piefed.social 1 week agoThere are other means to help this exact issue than just increasing supply.
They could instead re-introduce the government programs (ECO) to insulate homes better - which is just ending - to reduce demand. Pumping heat into a home that has a draft going through it is still just burning money.
Increasing supply instead just fuels speeding up global warming which is contributing to higher energy usage due to requiring more heating/cooling. The same people will be equally affected by those issues, and that’s before even talking about the environmental impact and risks of the actual drilling.
BigTwerp@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Did you know that the same people eligible for free insulation are also eligible for free heat pumps, and that scheme is still running?
I agree we need to insulate more however: The insulation scheme is ending because despite a lot of work trying to get people to insulate their homes less than half of eligible homes actually did it and new applications dried up. In the end they were spending more on publicity than insulation.
Or in other words; without forcing people to do it against their will everything that can be done with that particular scheme has been done.
A bigger issue now is people in rented accommodation, particularly pre-war housing stock where landlords haven’t insulated the property properly and that wasn’t captured in the insulation scheme anyway. There is in theory minimum EPC standards for rented accommodation but the reality is a lot of properties don’t meet that standard.