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The Alternative Green Energy Thread

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  • thevilla
    thevilla Posts: 414 Forumite
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    I reckon you'd be mad to install a gas supply simply for cooking and maybe a fire. Saves the builder a lot plus £100 pa standing charge for the owner.

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  • QrizB
    QrizB Posts: 21,980 Forumite
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    edited 30 March at 10:10PM

    Bizarrely, gas boilers are banned in new builds but not gas hobs.

    Boilers aren't banned until March 2027, it seems. Lobbyists got their way.

    I reckon you'd be mad to install a gas supply simply for cooking and maybe a fire.

    We did, in our previous house. Mrs Sheddi wanted to cook on gas and so we had a supply connected just for that. Property had storage heaters.

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  • JKenH
    JKenH Posts: 5,369 Forumite
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    edited Today at 12:13AM
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81943788#Comment_81943788

    Yes, that’s technically correct. It’s more a de facto ban as you have to meet emissions reductions which can’t be achieved just with a gas boiler so the default option is a heat pump. As with the ZEV mandate, there are, though, work rounds such as installing solar panels and waste water heat recovery systems.

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