According to the cabinet, legislation is needed to ensure that 1.5 million existing homes and buildings are ‘made more sustainable’ by 2030. This is one of the goals arising from the climate agreement: d By 2050, all 7.5 million existing homes and 1 million other buildings must be gas-free.
difficult process
However, it is difficult to extract natural gas from existing buildings and the 2030 target is no longer visible. Since 2018, experience has been gained in “boosting” the so-called pilot sites or test sites. For example in the Utrecht district of Overvecht. The process is very slow there.
That is why the 40 largest municipalities expressed their “concern” in a letter to the House of Representatives and the cabinet at the beginning of 2021. Affordability for residents was seen as one of the issues and a “voluntary approach” was seen by the club as “inadequate”. large municipalities
Municipalities could not decide to close a district or district completely; All building owners had to give their consent.
Save on maintenance costs
According to municipalities, shutdown is urgent on a district or district basis, not to be continued, in order not to have to maintain the natural gas pipelines in a district or district, on the other hand, natural gas is no longer used in some buildings. † You can save on maintenance costs by identifying and closing a district or an entire district in one go.
Municipal Instruments of the Heat Transition Act should now make this possible. The law provides for an “appointment power”. Municipalities can identify neighborhoods or neighborhoods that are “in transition to a sustainable energy supply”. Eight years after such a zone or area has been designated, the network operator is no longer allowed to transport and supply gas there.
What is not legally guaranteed is affordability for residents. The provision promised earlier in the climate agreement that no one can lose financially by switching from natural gas to another heat source (neutrality of housing costs) is not included in the law.
Criticism of the bill
That is why the association of owners is essential. Despite promises of affordability and freedom of choice for residents, the current bill gives municipalities room to move forward.
A spokesperson for Minister Hugo de Jonge (Housing and Spatial Planning, CDA) cannot yet say when the proposal will go to the House of Representatives.
subsidy is not enough
In a committee debate earlier this month, some lawmakers criticized what they called ‘coercion’, but Minister De Jonge rejected the criticism. “Of course a good conversation, subsidies, motivation, motivation, etc. You start at the side.”
It will not work with subsidies alone, says De Jonge, because “the amount of the subsidy is then so irrelevant that you would also say: it is a very inefficient way to spend government resources.”
“If we do this completely unstandardized or without saying it at the end of the day, we can’t wait for the last car either, then we do a lot for the taxpayer,” said De Jonge.
Source: RTL
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