supply and is as cheap as a gas boiler, very few people will be making that switch, i would imagine will stop obviously people who are very committed to reducing their emissions will take that hit which if you are a pensioner on a fixed income or a low income family, you ll have real problems when it comes down the line into making these switches. and i think even in these switches. and i think even in the documentation today, it makes it quite clear that low income families will be the hardest affected by this. it doesn t actually make clear exactly how the supply will cover costs from these changes. we don t know whether costs from these changes. we don t know whether they ll costs from these changes. we don t know whether they ll be costs from these changes. we don t know whether they ll be means - know whether they ll be means tested, and it is only a relatively small number of grants, given the overall numbers that are needed, but they hope the cost will come down. i think
installing a heat pump instead would mean some big changes which engineerjames says most of his customers don t have the money or the time to do. it would take more than a day to install so you ve got two days labour over one. you ve got the changes to the rest of the house. you re probably going to need somewhere to store a lot more water. more radiators, or bigger radiators, to get the same level of heat in that room. you ve got to consider something on the outside of your property, as well as the inside. tom had just forked out for a new home when he needed to replace the boiler, so even with an extra five grand from the government, there was no way he could have matched that with his own cash. you may want to make a greener decision, but you re limited by cost, i suppose. across the street, 91 year old lottie made the same choice. she got a new gas boiler because it was cheapest. not everybody s got that. it cost me over 2,000i for this, only last year, so it s draining your bit
to be heading net zero so we need to act swiftly to decarbonise heating. that s a really stark picture you paint of the timelines and the possible impact of installing a new gas boiler in the next 15 years. and of course renewable electricity is what is needed to power these heat pumps. where are we on that? boris johnsonjust saying in his pumps. where are we on that? boris johnson just saying in his speech a moment ago that the uk is the saudi arabia of wind power. but also what part does nuclear energy have to play in this? we part does nuclear energy have to play in this? play in this? we need clean electricity play in this? we need clean electricity to play in this? we need clean electricity to power - play in this? we need clean electricity to power all - play in this? we need clean| electricity to power all these options for greening our infrastructure and our life. we need to make sure that we are not triggering a competition for green power. we need to have a plan in my vi
trained up in this technology. when we try to replace our gas boiler we couldn t find anyone to put in an air source heat pump. so five years ago we replaced our gas boiler like for like. it is aboutjump starting the industry, than the costs come down and then we have the skills. you wanted an air source heat pump five years ago but you couldn t get one? we were moving into a house and we had to do up the house before we moved in. but how much has that changed now? how many people are there out there, are there enough people to install? in terms of skills and job creation for the green economy is a different thing. we have seen in the offshore wind industry how many people are being trained to work in that sector. what we need is the big energy companies to have their workforces trained up to do heat pumps as well as gas boilers, basically. this grant today is a welcome direction because until now,