The European Commission is working on a new directive on how citizens can heat in the future. From 2029, heat pumps will be installed almost exclusively in residential buildings. Critics see an overreach and the end for oil and gas heating. The Commission reacted with irritation. The “Krone” shows how to push the ban through the back door and what effects it will have on home heating companies.
It is a new “heating hammer”, headlines the newspaper “Bild”: If the EU maintains its new efficiency standards for heating systems, only heat pumps will be possible in the future. And the European Commission wants to do this alone. The German representation of the committee angrily denied on Twitter. The Member States, the EU Parliament and the EU Council are of course involved. But that’s not entirely true. In short: the commission intends to raise the efficiency standards for heating installations so drastically that all other options except the heat pump will be canceled for new construction. And she prepares this in an opaque way.
Source: Krone
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