Britain’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) told British citizens to stop heating their homes at night.
The move comes as the government is looking to meet its net-zero carbon emissions target.
Instead of heating homes in the evening, the CCC is urging citizens to heat homes in the afternoon.
According to a government paper, “Where homes are sufficiently well insulated, it is possible to pre-heat ahead of peak times, enabling access to cheaper tariffs which reflect the reduced costs associated with running networks and producing power during off-peak times.”
“Using electricity to heat a home opens the prospect of choosing a time when prices are lower, something that’s not possible with a gas boiler,” said a spokesman for the CCC.
“Smart heating of homes like this also makes the best possible use of the grid and supports greater use of cheap renewable generation.”
While the committee urged British citizens to use heat pumps instead of gas boilers, the head of the CCC Chris Stark has not made the switch himself.
Reporting from The National Pulse:
Whether Britain’s expensive green agenda can make any difference to the alleged problem of man-made climate change, even in theory, is doubtful. The People’s Republic of China alone has emitted more carbon in the last eight years than Britain has since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
