There’s an old saying that ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions, while the road to heaven is paved with good actions’.
When it comes to decarbonising heating, we’ve seen a lot of good intentions in the last decade, but not enough action. That needs to change says Malcolm Farrow, OFTEC’s Head of Public Affairs.
There are a lot of good intentions contained in the many heat decarbonisation strategies published in the last decade. We’ve also seen some taxpayer’s money spent incentivising various technologies – particularly heat pumps – via schemes such as the RHI, Green Deal and BUS. Proposals to phase out the installation of oil boilers have come and gone, and we’ve seen a lot of hot air spent discussing how best to achieve the looming net zero targets (fortunately, all that hot air hasn’t added significantly to carbon emissions . . .
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