The payback calculation doesn't consider time value of money. They are paying down £40K today but the savings are realized over years in the future. But they implicitly assumed the discount rate on those savings to be 0.
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Yes, if you want to be super precise you have to factor in both the time value of money on one hand and inflation & energy bill increases on the other.
But very often these will roughly cancel each other out.