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[–] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Maybe I am being overly cynical but this sounds like a handout to fossil fuel companies to keep people using gas longer. The standing charge was an extra reason to push me towards cutting off my gas supply entirely several years ago and going fully electric.

Crazy thing is despite all the propaganda against it, my heat pump works great in my house that is almost 100 years old. A kW of heat is a kW of heat regardless of where it comes from.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Always worth pointing out that the kW of heat energy is only using between 0.25 and 0.5 kW of electricity to bring that heat into the house.

    Heat pumps don't generate heat; they literally move heat from the outside air, into the house...

    Which is so much more efficient, it's mind boggling there's such resistance to it

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    I would be curious how little energy it takes in summer as its still doing hot water. Pretty sure with the summer we had it could have acted like a heat exchanger alone and the water would have been warm enough. Its internal thermometer read well over 40c most days when it was in the sun.

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