With gas boilers set to be banned in new builds, what will power our homes in the future?
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🗓️ 22 March 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Government wants to scrap gas boilers in new homes by 2025 – but what are the viable alternatives? And how much will they cost?
This week, This is Money editor Simon Lambert, reporter Grace Gausden and host Georgie Frost explore the options.
And on the energy theme, you can now ask Alexa: when will my electricity bills be cheapest?
Energy company Octopus has teamed up with Amazon, the creator of Alexa, and will pay customers to use electricity at off-peak periods. Sound too good to be true?
We also talk 'dumb' smart meters and reveal which energy firm we're leaving en masse...
Plus the team teach you the tips of the successful haggle as it emerges which telecoms giants are easiest to bargain with.
Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to This is Money in partnership with NS&I. I'm your host, Georgie Frost, and alongside |
| 0:06.5 | editor Simon Lamb and I today is reporter Grace Gawston. And coming up, we turn up the heat and talk |
| 0:12.6 | energy. The government wants to scrap gas boilers in new homes by 2025, but what are the viable |
| 0:19.1 | alternatives and just how much will they cost? Also today, Alexa, |
| 0:23.8 | what time of day will my energy be cheapest? Octopus teams up with Amazon and will pay customers |
| 0:29.6 | to use electricity at off-peak periods. Sound too good to be true? We teach you the tips of a successful |
| 0:36.1 | haggle, have a moan |
| 0:37.5 | about smart meters and find |
| 0:39.4 | out which energy firm we're leaving |
| 0:41.2 | en masse. Don't forget you can stay up to date with all the |
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| 0:48.9 | This is Money. Brought to you in partnership |
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| 0:57.5 | But first, now remember last week we were dissecting the Chancellor's Spring statement, |
| 1:02.1 | and in amongst the many words, not a lot of substance speech, was the news that gas boilers |
| 1:07.9 | would be banned from new build homes from 2025. Good news for the environment, |
| 1:12.5 | but potentially bad news for our wallets. Now, it had been speculated the move would cost |
| 1:17.1 | about five grand, at about five grand to the price of a house. We don't actually know that for sure |
| 1:23.0 | because, well, the government doesn't exactly know what should replace gas boilers. |
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