Intouch Banning gas boilers is not the way forward

I note the comments by Mr McManus, the managing director of Steibel Eltron UK, saying we should follow the example of Germany and push the market towards the use of renewable heating systems by banning installation of most gas and oil heating systems (Registered Gas Engineer, June 2023).

I could not disagree with him more.

How many working-class people in this country will actually be able to afford to do this when they need to change their boiler? Very few, I suspect, given the high cost of living.

And from the limited knowledge I have on this, it is my understanding that, for the vast majority of people, this is simply not the right way of heating existing homes.

Plus, if this is done on a huge scale, doesn’t it put more pressure on the electricity grid,