Heat and Buildings Strategy: Gas Boilers Debate
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Baroness Worthington
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Heat and Buildings Strategy: Gas Boilers
Baroness Worthington Excerpts(1 year, 8 months ago)
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Lord Callanan (Con)
The noble Lord will be aware that the next Question is on the boiler upgrade scheme; his question might perhaps have been more appropriate there, but I agree with him. The Answer I gave earlier shows what we are doing to invest in upgrading existing skills. It is a long-term job over decades, as the MCS correctly said. I was at a reception with the MCS last week, talking to it about this very issue.
Baroness Worthington (CB)
I agree with the Minister in his statement that there is a multiplicity of solutions for decarbonising heat. One very promising technology is the use of heat loops, or networked ground source heat pumps. These are much more efficient than even air source heat pumps and are an excellent technology that we should be trialling, perhaps instead of hydrogen.