White House says at least 8 US telecom firms, dozens of nations impacted by China hacking campaignEnergy experts slam Labour's controversial 'boiler tax' plan and say eye-watering climate change targets are 'unachievable' By JASON GROVES POLITICAL EDITOR Published: 17:03 EST, 21 November 2024 | Updated: 17:26 EST, 21 November 2024 e-mail 68 View comments Ed Miliband has revived controversial plans for a ‘boiler tax’ in a bid to meet Labour’s eye-watering climate change targets. The Energy Secretary has signed off on a proposal to impose swingeing taxes on boiler manufacturers if they fail to meet his targets for installing heat pumps – targets that industry sources have branded ‘unachievable’. A similar plan was scrapped by the Conservative government this year after the sector warned it would add £120 to the cost of a new boiler – leading it to be dubbed the ‘boiler tax’. But Mr Miliband, who toughened Britain’s climate change targets this month, yesterday revived the idea, prompting fears the price of a gas boiler will increase next year. Tory energy spokesman Claire Coutinho, who scrapped the move while in government, condemned the move. She accused ministers of trying to force people to instal heat pumps by driving up the price of gas boilers. ‘Labour have quietly introduced a new tax on boiler companies that don’t sell enough heat pumps,’ she said. ‘It gives Ed Miliband open-ended powers to force heat pumps on people by making the price of gas boilers unaffordable. Ed Miliband (pictured) has revived controversial plans for a ‘boiler tax’ in a bid to meet Labour’s eye-watering climate change targets The Energy Secretary has signed off on a proposal to impose swingeing taxes on boiler manufacturers if they fail to meet his targets for installing heat pumps – targets that industry sources have branded ‘unachievable’ (stock image) Mr Miliband’s department also slipped out new guidance that will allow people to install a heat pump less than a metre from their neighbour’s boundary, despite warnings it will lead to a flood of complaints about noise (stock image) ‘The climate change lobby have been itching to get this on the statute book for years because it uses higher costs to force people to buy heat pumps. We need to put living standards first.’ Industry chiefs say the new targets for installing heat pumps are ‘unachievable’ because of high costs and public scepticism. Mr Miliband’s department acknowledged that a majority of those responding to a consultation on the issue ‘did not support’ the target and that ‘several suggested the target was unachievable’. But a government source said ministers had decided to press ahead regardless and were ‘confident that the target is realistic and achievable’. Mr Miliband’s department also slipped out new guidance that will allow people to install a heat pump less than a metre from their neighbour’s boundary, despite warnings it will lead to a flood of complaints about noise. Current limits on the size of the ugly boxes will also be removed as ministers try to spark a huge increase in installations. And plans to ban the installation of gas boilers in new homes from next year will go ahead. Read More Expert shares 6 tips on how use apps to save cash - saying you could cut up to £140 off energy bills The last government set a target of installing 600,000 heat pumps a year by 2028. But a recent National Audit Office review of the scheme found that, despite heavy subsidies, in its first year in 2022/23 just 18,871 heat pumps were installed, far below the 50,000 target for that year. By contrast, roughly 1.5 million gas boilers were installed, mostly to replace worn-out models. Under the new target, which will come into force from April, at least 6 per cent of all domestic heating installations will have to be heat pumps – equal to around 90,000 new systems. Indicative targets published by the Government suggest this will rise to 10 per cent the following year, 17 per cent the year after and 27 per cent – around 400,000 installations – in 2028. However, the regulations leave Mr Miliband free to raise the targets even higher. Firms that fail to install enough heat pumps will be hit with fines of £500 for every additional gas boiler they sell, rising to £3,000 the following year. Mike Foster, of the Energy and Utilities Alliance, said: ‘The challenge the Government faces is not the lack of supply of heat pumps – you can buy one today if you want – it is the lack of consumer demand. ‘As officials have acknowledged, they cost considerably more to buy than a gas boiler; they cost more to run than a gas boiler and they are more disruptive to fit in the home compared to simply replacing a boiler. 'These things need addressing.’ Sir Keir Starmer yesterday said the Government was right to unilaterally toughen Britain’s climate targets, requiring this country to cut emissions by 81 per cent by 2035. But Tory leader Kemi Badenoch questioned the value of the target – and pointed out the PM had yet to publish a plan to hit it or said what it will cost to achieve. She told MPs that the Government was putting ‘press releases before practicality’. Why the 'boiler tax' is such a heated debate What has Ed Miliband proposed? From next April, boiler manufacturers will have to ensure that heat pumps account for at least 6 per cent of installations. They will be fined £500 for every extra gas boiler over this limit, with the fines rising to £3,000 the following year. The proportion of new heat pumps is also expected to rise the following year to at least 10 per cent. How much will the cost of a new boiler go up? Industry sources said this year that the plans would drive up the average price by up to £120 to cover the cost of paying new fines. The Government yesterday cut the proposed fines from £3,000 to £500 for the first year. But the level of heat pump installations required has risen from 4 per cent to 6 per cent. Why are they doing this? Heating accounts for 40 per cent of all gas use in the UK. Mr Miliband’s target to cut UK emissions by 81 per cent by 2035 will require a big shift away from gas boilers over the next decade. But the boiler industry says the plan will work only if ministers can persuade the public to embrace heat pumps. Otherwise, it will simply push up the cost of gas boilers. How is it going so far? The National Audit Office found that just 18,871 new heat pumps were installed in 2022/23, compared with 1.5million new gas boilers. But last year’s decision to raise the £5,000 installation grant by 50 per cent has led to a surge in interest, with a record 3,223 people applying for a grant in September. Why has take up of heat pumps been so slow? On average they are four times as expensive to install and remain more costly even after a government grant worth £7,500 is taken into account. Critics claim they are also more expensive to run and struggle to produce enough heat in winter, although supporters insist these problems can be overcome with better insulation. 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YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — On a damp Wednesday night with temperatures dipping into the 30s, fans in sparsely filled stands bundled up to watch Buffalo beat Eastern Michigan 37-30 on gray turf. The lopsided game was not particularly notable, but it was played on one of the nights the Mid-American Conference has made its own: A weeknight. “A lot of the general public thinks we play all of our games on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, not just some of them in November,” MAC Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said in a telephone interview this week. “What it has done is help take what was a pretty darned good regional conference and has given it a national brand and made it a national conference.” When the conference has played football games on ESPN or ESPN2 over the last two seasons, the linear television audience has been 10 times larger than when conference schools meet on Saturdays and get lost in the shuffle when viewers have many more choices. The most-watched MAC game over the last two years was earlier this month on a Wednesday night when Northern Illinois won at Western Michigan and there were 441,600 viewers, a total that doesn’t include streaming that isn’t captured by Nielsen company. During the same span, the linear TV audience has been no larger than 46,100 to watch two MAC teams play on Saturdays. “Having the whole nation watching on Tuesday and Wednesday night is a huge deal for the MAC,” Eastern Michigan tight end Jere Getzinger said. “Everybody wants to watch football so if you put it on TV on a Tuesday or Wednesday, people are going to watch.” ESPN has carried midweek MAC football games since the start of the century. ESPN and the conference signed a 13-year extension a decade ago that extends their relationship through at least the 2026-27 season. The conference has made the most of the opportunities, using MACtion as a tag on social media for more than a decade and it has become a catchy marketing term for the Group of Five football programs that usually operate under the radar in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and New York. Attendance does tend to go down with weeknight games, keeping some students out of stadiums because they have class or homework and leading to adults staying away home because they have to work the next morning. “The tradeoff is the national exposure,” Buffalo coach Pete Lembo said. “You know November nights midweek the average fan is going to park on the couch, have a bowl of chips and salsa out in front, and watch the game from there." When the Bulls beat Ball State 51-48 in an overtime thriller on a Tuesday night earlier this month, the announced attendance was 12,708 and that appeared to be generous. There were many empty seats after halftime. “You watch the games on TV, the stadiums all look like this,” Buffalo fan Jeff Wojcicki said. “They are not packed, but it’s the only game on, and you know where to find it.” Sleep and practice schedules take a hit as well, creating another wave of challenges for students to attend class and coaches to prepare without the usual rhythm of preparing all week to play on Saturday. “Last week when we played at Ohio in Athens, we had a 4-four bus ride home and got home at about 3:30 a.m.,” Eastern Michigan center Broderick Roman said. “We still had to go to class and that was tough, but it's part of what you commit to as an athlete.” That happens a lot in November when the MAC shifts its unique schedule. During the first two weeks of the month, the conference had 10 games on Tuesdays and Wednesdays exclusively. This week, there were five games on Tuesday and Wednesday while only one was left in the traditional Saturday slot with Ball State hosting Bowling Green. Next week, Toledo plays at Akron and Kent State visits Buffalo on Tuesday night before the MAC schedule wraps up with games next Friday and Saturday to determine which teams will meet in the conference title game on Dec. 7 in Detroit. In all, MAC teams will end up playing about 75% of their games on a Saturday and the rest on November weeknights. When the Eagles wrapped up practice earlier this week, two days before they played the Bulls, tight end Jere Getzinger provided some insight into the effects of the scheduling quirk. “It's Monday, but for us it's like a Thursday,” he said. Bowling Green coach Scot Loeffler said he frankly has a hard time remembering what day it is when the schedule shift hits in November. “The entire week gets turned upside down,” Loeffler said. “It’s wild, but it’s great for the league because there’s two days a week this time of year that people around the country will watch MAC games.” AP freelance writer Jonah Bronstein contributed to this report. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-footballTwo former senior advisers to Labour analyse the clear messages from US voters’ preference for Trump
FIFA confirms 2034 World Cup coming to Saudi ArabiaEnergy experts slam Labour's controversial 'boiler tax' plan and say eye-watering climate change targets are 'unachievable' By JASON GROVES POLITICAL EDITOR Published: 17:03 EST, 21 November 2024 | Updated: 17:26 EST, 21 November 2024 e-mail 68 View comments Ed Miliband has revived controversial plans for a ‘boiler tax’ in a bid to meet Labour’s eye-watering climate change targets. The Energy Secretary has signed off on a proposal to impose swingeing taxes on boiler manufacturers if they fail to meet his targets for installing heat pumps – targets that industry sources have branded ‘unachievable’. A similar plan was scrapped by the Conservative government this year after the sector warned it would add £120 to the cost of a new boiler – leading it to be dubbed the ‘boiler tax’. But Mr Miliband, who toughened Britain’s climate change targets this month, yesterday revived the idea, prompting fears the price of a gas boiler will increase next year. Tory energy spokesman Claire Coutinho, who scrapped the move while in government, condemned the move. She accused ministers of trying to force people to instal heat pumps by driving up the price of gas boilers. ‘Labour have quietly introduced a new tax on boiler companies that don’t sell enough heat pumps,’ she said. ‘It gives Ed Miliband open-ended powers to force heat pumps on people by making the price of gas boilers unaffordable. Ed Miliband (pictured) has revived controversial plans for a ‘boiler tax’ in a bid to meet Labour’s eye-watering climate change targets The Energy Secretary has signed off on a proposal to impose swingeing taxes on boiler manufacturers if they fail to meet his targets for installing heat pumps – targets that industry sources have branded ‘unachievable’ (stock image) Mr Miliband’s department also slipped out new guidance that will allow people to install a heat pump less than a metre from their neighbour’s boundary, despite warnings it will lead to a flood of complaints about noise (stock image) ‘The climate change lobby have been itching to get this on the statute book for years because it uses higher costs to force people to buy heat pumps. We need to put living standards first.’ Industry chiefs say the new targets for installing heat pumps are ‘unachievable’ because of high costs and public scepticism. Mr Miliband’s department acknowledged that a majority of those responding to a consultation on the issue ‘did not support’ the target and that ‘several suggested the target was unachievable’. But a government source said ministers had decided to press ahead regardless and were ‘confident that the target is realistic and achievable’. Mr Miliband’s department also slipped out new guidance that will allow people to install a heat pump less than a metre from their neighbour’s boundary, despite warnings it will lead to a flood of complaints about noise. Current limits on the size of the ugly boxes will also be removed as ministers try to spark a huge increase in installations. And plans to ban the installation of gas boilers in new homes from next year will go ahead. Read More Expert shares 6 tips on how use apps to save cash - saying you could cut up to £140 off energy bills The last government set a target of installing 600,000 heat pumps a year by 2028. But a recent National Audit Office review of the scheme found that, despite heavy subsidies, in its first year in 2022/23 just 18,871 heat pumps were installed, far below the 50,000 target for that year. By contrast, roughly 1.5 million gas boilers were installed, mostly to replace worn-out models. Under the new target, which will come into force from April, at least 6 per cent of all domestic heating installations will have to be heat pumps – equal to around 90,000 new systems. Indicative targets published by the Government suggest this will rise to 10 per cent the following year, 17 per cent the year after and 27 per cent – around 400,000 installations – in 2028. However, the regulations leave Mr Miliband free to raise the targets even higher. Firms that fail to install enough heat pumps will be hit with fines of £500 for every additional gas boiler they sell, rising to £3,000 the following year. Mike Foster, of the Energy and Utilities Alliance, said: ‘The challenge the Government faces is not the lack of supply of heat pumps – you can buy one today if you want – it is the lack of consumer demand. ‘As officials have acknowledged, they cost considerably more to buy than a gas boiler; they cost more to run than a gas boiler and they are more disruptive to fit in the home compared to simply replacing a boiler. 'These things need addressing.’ Sir Keir Starmer yesterday said the Government was right to unilaterally toughen Britain’s climate targets, requiring this country to cut emissions by 81 per cent by 2035. But Tory leader Kemi Badenoch questioned the value of the target – and pointed out the PM had yet to publish a plan to hit it or said what it will cost to achieve. She told MPs that the Government was putting ‘press releases before practicality’. Why the 'boiler tax' is such a heated debate What has Ed Miliband proposed? From next April, boiler manufacturers will have to ensure that heat pumps account for at least 6 per cent of installations. They will be fined £500 for every extra gas boiler over this limit, with the fines rising to £3,000 the following year. The proportion of new heat pumps is also expected to rise the following year to at least 10 per cent. How much will the cost of a new boiler go up? Industry sources said this year that the plans would drive up the average price by up to £120 to cover the cost of paying new fines. The Government yesterday cut the proposed fines from £3,000 to £500 for the first year. But the level of heat pump installations required has risen from 4 per cent to 6 per cent. Why are they doing this? Heating accounts for 40 per cent of all gas use in the UK. Mr Miliband’s target to cut UK emissions by 81 per cent by 2035 will require a big shift away from gas boilers over the next decade. But the boiler industry says the plan will work only if ministers can persuade the public to embrace heat pumps. Otherwise, it will simply push up the cost of gas boilers. How is it going so far? The National Audit Office found that just 18,871 new heat pumps were installed in 2022/23, compared with 1.5million new gas boilers. But last year’s decision to raise the £5,000 installation grant by 50 per cent has led to a surge in interest, with a record 3,223 people applying for a grant in September. Why has take up of heat pumps been so slow? On average they are four times as expensive to install and remain more costly even after a government grant worth £7,500 is taken into account. Critics claim they are also more expensive to run and struggle to produce enough heat in winter, although supporters insist these problems can be overcome with better insulation. 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