Dr Jan Rosenow, the director of European programmes at the Regulatory Assistance Project and co-author of the report, said: “There has been a campaign spreading false information about heat pumps [including casting doubt on whether they work in cold weather]. People [in the UK] don’t know much about heat pumps, so it’s very easy to scare them by giving them wrong information.”
In larger older cities in the US, the barrier to adoption tends to be landlords
100%. owner-occupied homes are incentivized, landlords do not give a fuck. if i was a wonk lanyard and didn’t find landlords to be the enemies of all mankind, i would craft policy to require any home let out for rent to have a yearly energy audit and meet the highest levels of energy efficiency for all appliances, climate control, and be fully electrified in preparation for grid decarbonization.
I think some euro countries require inspections on rental units every few years