Man ‘facing £7,000 energy bill’ after switching to £25,000 government-backed ‘green’ heat pump

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Man ‘facing £7,000 energy bill’ after switching to £25,000 government-backed ‘green’ heat pump
DECEMBER 20, 2022
 
By Paul Homewood
 

h/t Tallbloke


From the Independent:
 

A man claims he is facing a £7,000 energy bill after replacing his heating system with a £25,000 Government-backed ‘green’ heat pump.

Officials are currently providing grants for up to £5,000 to home owners who remove a gas central heating and hot water system and replace it with a heat pump.

But the new system, backed by many in the green lobby, has apparently left many UK homeowners in the cold.

Steve Mason, 58, spent thousands on the new system and says he has seen his bills rocket despite his thermostat being set at just 17 degrees.

Based on the same technology as refrigerators, the air pump pulls heat out from outside air and into the house, and can be run on renewably generated electricity, making them carbon neutral.

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2022/12/20/man-facing-7000-energy-bill-after-switching-to-25000-government-backed-green-heat-pump/

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[DefiantMassRINO]

What happens when there is no "heat outside the house"?

I presume the colder and the drier the outside, the harder the heat pump must work.

[Hoodat]

What happens when there is no "heat outside the house"?

There's always heat outside the house.  (Think of how it would be if the air was as solid as ice). 

It is the heat differential that matters.  In winter, heat is always escaping from inside the house.  The greater the temperature differential, the harder the heat pump has to work to keep up.  At the same time, that heat pump is now running more inefficiently because of that same temperature differential.