The Scottish government wants more than a million homes converted from gas or oil heating by the end of the decade.
Transforming the way Scotland's buildings are heated is set to be one of the defining challenges of this decade, at a vast cost to government, commerce and mainly to home-owners.
As the first Green minister on these islands to deliver a parliamentary statement, Patrick Harvie wasn't going to let the occasion pass on Wednesday without significance, ambition and an eye-watering bill., along with 50,000-plus non-domestic buildings. The cost: north of £33 billion. And as only 41% of privately-owned homes in the 2019 housing survey were found to be of the minimum level of energy efficiency being targeted, that involves bills for a lot of owner-occupiers and landlords.
That could be tricky to achieve at a time when the household energy bills are set to soar next April by perhaps £500 per year on average, when the current surge in wholesale prices feeds through to the capped variable tariffs.
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