I am delighted to report that news stories over the last year have alerted us to the fact that the reason that our east midlands region had the highest grid intensity was that we had the UK’s last coal-fired power station, at Ratcliffe on Soar. Now that that has closed a couple of months ago, we should rejoin the rest of the UK with your lower-emissions electricity. Hurrah! Now to get heat pump ready, but should that include replacing the suspended timber floor on half of our house’s ground floor with an earth floor, as done by heat pump aficionado Florence Collier of Humblebee Eco
(Carbon Coop member and webinar giver I believe, but not on this forum perhaps, given that @florence doesn’t seem to give any response) so that we can install underfloor heating without incurring the huge upfront/embodied carbon cost of a concrete floor? Was it her house and earth floor to which recent open day visitors were kindly invited? (Not revealed until signed-up, and the visit was fully booked within 6 hours of me receiving the email, which sadly was before I saw it and attempted to book).