The Governments Net Zero outlines that 17% of all CO2 emissions supposedly come from home heating, 4% is from gas boilers using Methane (Natural Gas) and 13% is from Oil and other fossil fuel heat sources. (source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/heat-and-buildings-strategy/heat-and-building-strategy-accessible-webpage )
These are very interesting figures when you consider just how much media attention is going toward the push for moving away from gas boilers and onto heat pumps. Don’t get that wrong, heat pumps can be excellent sources of heat and if designed and installed correctly, cheaper to run.
One has to ponder on the why of the B.U.S. (boiler upgrader scheme) grant being so heavily directed toward gas boiler users when the majority of our emissions come from non gas boiler heat sources.
Wouldn’t it be more prudent, at least over the next few years, to focus instead on increasing the grant value (it could likely cover the entire installation cost if the grant kitty is to cover fewer homes) and offering it toward all these non natural gas heat sources (like oil heated homes) to get them, the largest domestic contributor of emissions, over to renewables?
Reducing the 13% rather than the 4% seems like a smarter move?