[ritchiebaby]

It needs to be stressed that the UK has about 20 million homes heated by gas boilers. So allowing for the Government target to phase them out by 2035, that's almost 1.5 million needing to be replaced every year - 30,000 every week! Can anyone tell me where all the qualified fitters are going to be coming from to do all this work? And who is going to be manufacturing and fitting all the new electric boilers/heat pumps required? Can the National Grid cope with the huge demand of 1.5 million homes every year using additional electricity (on top of the demand with all-electric cars)? And where is the money coming from? Surely we're not leaving it all to Government and surely the people who can afford it will pay for it themselves, as they have done for years.

Ambition is fine as an ideal, but it's got to be realistic in the circumstances. I would imagine if we can do it before 2050, we'll be doing really well.