UK power demand to soar on plans to end gas home heating - research
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LONDON (Reuters) - Increasing use of electricity to warm Britain’s homes instead of gas could more than triple power demand from the heating sector by 2050, energy research company Aurora said on Tuesday.Around 80 percent of British homes are heated by gas, but Chancellor Philip Hammond last week pledged to ban fossil fuel heating systems in new homes built from 2025.Heating homes from electric sources such as heat pumps could increase power demand from the sector to around 100 terawatt hours..