Grant Shapps, the energy secretary, popped up on television at the weekend to explain that the cost of installing a heat pump is only about £3,000, the same as a gas boiler. Hmm. Good luck with that.
That number is only true once a £5,000 grant from the government (of which only 90,000 are available) has been considered.
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