You evil bastids with your towel rails and underfloor heating…..
Miliband comes for underfloor heating in net zero drive
Energy Secretary to introduce curbs on towel rails and gas fires in push for energy-efficient technology
Ed Miliband will ban the sale of underfloor heating systems deemed to be using too much power in his latest net zero drive.
The Energy Secretary has also set his sights on electric towel rails, gas fires and storage heaters, with plans for new market controls designed to cut carbon emissions.
He wants to bring in new energy efficiency requirements that will result in more than a third of so-called “space heating systems” becoming illegal to sell.
New rules will make temperature controls mandatory, while other regulations will mean some towel rails will only be allowed to operate for six hours a day.
It will push consumers to more costly modern alternatives that use smart functions to help limit energy use, such as restricting heating to certain times of day, or cutting a heating system off completely, for instance when there is a draught that would make it inefficient to continue running.
The changes will align Britain more closely with the EU, which has already introduced similar eco restrictions, with only the most energy-efficient products remaining on sale.
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