Thursday June 17, 2010
No hands to the pump!
Oliver Tickell
NewStatesman
Among the hundreds of files piling up on Chris Huhne's desk is a nice fat one marked "Renewable Heat Incentive" (RHI). He could easily sign it off, but let's hope he doesn't. For lurking in there is a potential £35bn boondoggle that threatens to worsen energy supply problems and increase greenhouse-gas emissions.
Launched last winter by the then energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, the RHI is intended to encourage people to heat their houses and water using solar panels, woodchip boilers and . . . heat pumps.
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