It is almost certain that at some point you will need to change your gas or other fossil fuel boiler to a renewable heat generator such as an air source heat pump, whether that is due to regulation, running costs, availability of coal, gas & oil, or because of global pressure to go green. We are already starting to see that governments around the globe, including ours in the UK are penalising users of fossil fuels with higher costs & more legislation, which is a movement that is gathering momentum and showing no signs of stopping, we will cover more on this below. On the contrary there are incentives through the forms of grants and tax relief to help people change over to air source heating, there are also other forms of non fossil fuel heating such as electric radiators, and electric boilers but these have much lower efficiency than an air source heat pump and that is the reason why air source heat pumps will soon become as popular as what the traditional gas boiler has been for the last 20 years. Many people assume that heat pumps are a new concept, as they haven’t been traditionally used in residential UK homes until the last 5 to 10 years, however heat pumps have been around for over 150 years and they are much more commonly used in residential homes around Europe, in particularly Scandinavia where they are exposed to much colder weather conditions than the UK, plus the most notable mass adoption of heat pumps in Europe is in Germany, where electric heat pumps have outsold fossil fuel burning alternatives since 2021 and are now known as the new normal in home heating. Germany is a technologically advanced nation, centrally located in Europe and is usually a good indicator of what the future changes we will see in the UK.