• WALLACE@feddit.uk
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      4 hours ago

      … Do you think that converting tens of millions of buildings to heat pumps by mid winter is a quick and easy solution?

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          14 minutes ago

          Increased demand for electricity is already outpacing increase in supply. The queue for new connections to the national grid has reached 29 GW (equivalent to 15 million homes or 300 data centres), and that is growing nearly three times faster than capacity. Headroom won’t exist by 2030 to allow sudden mass replacenent of gas for heating and cooking.