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U.K.’s Climate Plan May Risk Heating-Cost Surge in Cold Snaps
The U.K. faces an additional burden in energy costs from plans to switch to electricity in home heating from natural gas, according to National Grid Plc.
The government, chasing a target to cut carbon emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, may push to heat almost all U.K. homes using electricity by that date, Marcus Stewart, future distribution networks manager at National Grid in Warwick, England, said in an e-mail yesterday. Currently, about 80 percent of the country’s homes are heated by gas.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-03/u-k-climate-plan-may-risk-heating-cost-surge-in-cold-snaps.html
The government, chasing a target to cut carbon emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, may push to heat almost all U.K. homes using electricity by that date, Marcus Stewart, future distribution networks manager at National Grid in Warwick, England, said in an e-mail yesterday. Currently, about 80 percent of the country’s homes are heated by gas.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-03/u-k-climate-plan-may-risk-heating-cost-surge-in-cold-snaps.html
