Why was Didcot "A" Power Station Demolished a Columnist Asks?

The European Union made grants available to replace central heating circulating pumps in domestic properties, but the British Government decided not to make this available to people available throughout the UK. 


Had all the central heating circulating pumps in homes across Europe including the the UK been replaced with new more efficient versions several coal fired power stations could have been closed and demolished.


It is not all about grand gestures, it’s actually about getting on and making lots of improvements that add up to a huge difference.


Most people end up with the cheapest pump the plumbers merchants sell, in fact my plumbers merchant only stocks one model of pump, there is no choice. When I passed comment to a plumber that I had bought a particularly energy efficient pump that was in comparison expensive he laughed, but it has more than paid for itself by now, just think how many hours a day it runs over the winter.


Even if the Government had taken up the EU grant scheme I doubt many people in the UK would have bothered yo make the change.


The home insulation schemes have probably reached saturation point by now, generally people who will have additional home insulation installed have had it installed by now. To go any further with it would require some sort of compulsion and I cannot see that happening at the moment, only further increases in the cost heating your home is an incentive to improve the insulation at the moment.


Andy Betteridge

The European Union made grants available to replace central heating circulating pumps in domestic properties, but the British Government decided not to make this available to people available throughout the UK. 


Had all the central heating circulating pumps in homes across Europe including the the UK been replaced with new more efficient versions several coal fired power stations could have been closed and demolished.


It is not all about grand gestures, it’s actually about getting on and making lots of improvements that add up to a huge difference.


Most people end up with the cheapest pump the plumbers merchants sell, in fact my plumbers merchant only stocks one model of pump, there is no choice. When I passed comment to a plumber that I had bought a particularly energy efficient pump that was in comparison expensive he laughed, but it has more than paid for itself by now, just think how many hours a day it runs over the winter.


Even if the Government had taken up the EU grant scheme I doubt many people in the UK would have bothered yo make the change.


The home insulation schemes have probably reached saturation point by now, generally people who will have additional home insulation installed have had it installed by now. To go any further with it would require some sort of compulsion and I cannot see that happening at the moment, only further increases in the cost heating your home is an incentive to improve the insulation at the moment.


Andy Betteridge