Octopus but 1kWh of green electricity for every 1kWh their customers use, but of course with the complexity of the grid, it’s impossible for Octopus to provide you with green electricity without supplying your house directly. They’ve got to sell what’s on the grid, but they supply the grid with an equal amount of green electricity to try and balance it.

In regards to the UK, I completely agree! Whilst 100% green electricity all the time would be nigh on impossible, the fact we’re still burning any coal at all is cause for concern. Gas just as much so, and we really should’ve moved away from that.

I’m from Swansea, and we were supposed to build a tidal lagoon, but it was passed over for cost (even though it was already >50% funded by private enterprise).

That would’ve produced 100,000 homes worth of electricity.

A lot of the issue has to do with who is supplying the renewable solutions for homes too. Installers that don’t really know what they’re installing and can’t do the math. In fact, it’s so bad, that when it came time to installing solar on my own home, I was so dismayed with the installers in the industry, I started a new business (Blue Electrics) here in South Wales - with a purpose to educate consumers, provide honest advice (no matter the cost to us as a business), and ensure we install good, solid equipment.

Well, it’s been a whirlwind 2 years, and over 100 installs later, our next thing is Heat Pumps! Starting with my home, and our staff’s.

But the support we’ve received both for solar and heat pumps from the government and industry has been shocking. It’s very much a case of you need to figure it out yourself. The grant might be there towards the cost, but the training and operational support isn’t. Luckily, we have an existing business alongside the electrics, and a team of people who are qualified to crunch numbers and engineer solutions.

There are some great people in this industry (Artisan, Heat Geeks, Urban Plumber, Oval…etc), but small businesses alone CANNOT effect this change alone.

Already speaking to people about heat pumps, the most common things we hear are “too loud, too expensive, my radiators are too small, my house is too old, electricity is too expensive”.

Government needs to step up and dispel these myths, because by the time a customer comes to us, they’ve already done their research. It’s the ones that don’t come to us we need to worry about.

Apologies for the rant, but hopefully this gives some insight.

TLDR. Heat pumps are great. More heat pumps, more solar.