[mtmickush]

> give away solar panels and two way heat pumps to low-income families

There's no need to caveat benefits like this by income - the most popular social programs are almost always universal. Also the added bureaucracy of validating that someone lands in a category isn't worth the overhead. Why wouldn't we want everyone to install more solar panels and two way heat pumps?

[benj111]

First off. Richer people tend to have larger houses, so use more energy. In the UK the grants are such that for me in a smaller house. A heat pump is the same price as a replacement boiler. You could up the grant amount but unless you're going to have a regressive policy of giving more to the rich you aren't going to give the rich all the heat pump and solar they need/can install.

Personally rather than giving someone benefits to pay for electricity I'd rather install solar on their roof.

So for a government, this needs not cost more than what they are doing now.