so even with the UK's broken energy market keeping gas synthetically cheap.... heat pumps still end up cheaper to run.
Yes, plus:
It's becoming more and more obvious this synthetically cheap gas is not going to last for long. Also here we have this thing called "moral".
For example, right now Finnish taxpayers are paying for Germany's synthetically cheap gas. The problem just is: Germany has 16x the population. Now that Finland subsidized German cheap gas by some ~10 billion euros - 4% of the country's GDP - divided to each German this is mere ~120EUR. Sure it helps them a bit. But divide the same sum to every Finn, and now it is suddenly ~2000 EUR. You could install five ****king million heatpumps (premium models) with this sum. It would be better investment than just paying for more expensive gas.
The only consequence is slow annihilation of Finland as a country, and transition into total poverty and source of some cheap labor, in eternal debt.
Once you have pumped us dry, then there is no Finland left to pay for your bills. The problem is, due to the small size of Finland, we are already very close to that point.
At some point your fixed price gas contracts just can't be maintained because someone has to pay the actual bill.
Thanks to Brexit we don't likely to have to literally pay
your (the UK commenters) gas bills. But the bottom line is the same: your bullshit gas is artificially cheap, and that is not going to last forever.
Meanwhile in Finland, successful people avoid earning too much to avoid 70% income tax, and instead do plumbing work for their own houses. This way we can at least try to avoid sending any more money out of this country. But for long-term productivity, it would be more fruitful if I did EE things as full-time job (because I'm relatively good with this) and let others do the plumbing. But can't do that, because then my wage is sent to Germany, Spain etc., and I
still can't afford a plumber.
So I have installed my heatpump myself. I have made plumbing for water energy storage system myself. I have installed heat recovery ventilator myself. I have to, because our heating energy bills have quadrupled during this year. We don't have the luxury of 10-year fixed price cheap gas contracts.
Think about that.