Very limited analysis.
Powering current homes with poorly performing envelopes requires vastly more energy, meaning literally more wind/solar/etc.
Also: ignores other benefits: more durable buildings, more resilience in the face of extreme weather, far improved health and comfort.
#CountEverything
Powering current homes with poorly performing envelopes requires vastly more energy, meaning literally more wind/solar/etc.
Also: ignores other benefits: more durable buildings, more resilience in the face of extreme weather, far improved health and comfort.
#CountEverything
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Installing a heat pump is cheaper and overnight lower carbon dioxide emissions.
In many cases insisting on insulation is making the perfect the enemy of the adequate and achievable.
Regardless - each property should have a long term plan, based on work that’s required anyway, staged to make ££
It’s wisdom is lost however, if you don’t include what the building industry has suffered enough from for decades: “Letting the good’nuf be the enemy of the good.”
There’s good work to be seen always.
Simply do good work.