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This is exactly the thing. In UK electricity price is set by the cost of generating it from natural gas. After losses, etc, you get about 1/3 of power in electricity compared to heat in the gas. And the heat pump has an efficiency factor of about 3. So you get back to unity.

While electricity is priced off gas, current heat pumps do not have a strong economic case.



That is as long as gas forms the final price at the determination of each 30 min electricity price setting around.

The prices plummet from time to time, even going negative, but not enough for the prices to be lowered.

Seemingly it’ll take a few more years for more energy to reach the south, but by then data centres may be using more.




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