Like lots of these schemes, it nudges people who can pay for it all to buy into it (EVs, Solar panels, air source pumps etc ) with a government subsidy. It's unfortunate that this means others have to pay for something that they probably can afford anyway.
However this subsidy often drives the market, I believe since FIT was dropped the amount of solar panels fitted to houses has dropped. That's probably not a coincidence.
EVs are similar, people who buy cars at £2k don't drive the market.
Only way around it is to start fitting them for free, I don't think that's happening soon. I think fitting panels to houses will drop off anyway, electricity generated will be mainly commercial farms. I see there's various plans going in across the E of England that will add GWs to the grid.
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