I've just seen a headline which reads "Government to announce domestic boiler scrappage scheme".
So, if you want to get rid of your 'Old Boiler' and trade her in for a younger model, you might get a government subsidy!
Could you post a URL, please?
There's bound to be a catch !!
Like you getting only £300. It's mentioned only as an expected announcement on the BBC News website but no details
There isn't one yet! It's just a scrolling headline at the top of the BBC news site - but it's not yet underlined and connected to a link.
..like only being able to claim via a registered contractor maybe....
Well the first one I've spotted from the reheatbritain.org site is that it's G rated boilers only. Who knows the rating of their boiler for a start.
Also it's only going to benefit 100,000 households from something over 4,000,000 out there.
Looks good but pissing in the wind again.
The catch is that the cost of boiler replacement will go up by a sum not unadjacent to £300.
Thanks - my boiler make and model is listed but the ID number is different so I may be out of luck :-(
Exactly. Plus there aren't any new boilers that will provide anything like the lifespan of many of those on the list or be as reliable. If you are tempted by the £300, then put the same aside each year for depreciation, plus half as much again for servicing and likely faults. The only beneficiaries are going to be the boiler manufacturers and installers. 15% gas savings is peanuts in comparison.
Andy C
There is now a link (with all the relevant details missing as you would expect)
Adam
Rearrange the following word to answer your question.
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Adam
;-)
The bit that caught my eye was:
"From April, people with a home wind turbine or solar panels who plug their excess power into the national grid will receive on average £900 a year," Mr Darling said. "I intend to make this tax free."
Does anyone have figures to hand to say how much electricity the £900 represents (at the inflated price paid for green energy) and how big a wind farm they would need at say an optimistic 20% load factor or how big an array of photoelectric panels to achieve the say output.
Look on the bright side. You are probably not eligible for a scam designed to maximise the profits the chancellor's chums and furthermore improve his tax yield as well.
FWIW my 18 year old boiler isn't on the list either which must come as a bit of a shock to Dribble who thinks anything with a cast iron heat exchanger is no more than 50% efficient.
We had some greenwashing at work last week, with helpful advice on how to compost your car etc. They also had a bunch of leaflets from the CO2 Trust, some of which (heat pumps) were pretty good, other (PV generation) ludicrous. On their own figures, PV has a working life ot
25 years, break-even for interest-free payback with full grant support in around 40 years.
Say 10p/unit =3D 9,000 units/year =3D 25 units/day =3D 1 unit/hr 20% loa= d factor would need a 5kW, or there abouts, installation.
The tax on =A3900 is =A3180 1/100th (ish) of the cost of a cheap 5kW windmill install.
company to do the installation. Any possible diy savings will be negated at a stroke!
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