Gas firms may have tried to undermine uptake of heat pumps: comment

"Our reliance on gas boilers has added to us being so hard hit by the last energy crisis and is a concern for this one too. Anyone that seeks to delay the move to heat pumps, which will increasingly run off British wind and solar, is arguing for people to remain vulnerable to gas price spikes on international markets out of our control.

"The gas boiler industry has long been a millstone around the neck of successive governments that have sought to boost energy security and stabilise bills by electrifying, with ex-energy Ministers accusing them of "price gouging" [2]. Plus they've been referred to the Competition and Markets Authority several times for potentially misleading customers over green boilers [3] and collusion [4]."