Balkan Green Energy News
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Austria is preparing legislation aimed at phasing out fossil fuels in heating, starting with a ban on the installation of gas boilers in new buildings from next year. Heating systems that use coal and oil should be switched to renewables by 2035 and the proposed deadline for gas is 2040.
Heating accounts for a quarter of Austria’s gas consumption, Minister of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology Leonore Gewessler said as she presented the amendments to the Renewable Heating Act. She pointed out that buying foreign fossil gas, primarily from Russia, costs EUR 2 billion per year.
“Every gas heater that we replace with a sustainable heating system is a step out of dependency. Every apartment that we keep warm with sustainable heating makes us freer and less vulnerable to blackmail. That’s why from 2023 there should be an end to gas heating in new buildings,” Gewessler underscored.
The technology is currently set to be banned in 2025. Austria gets more than 80% of its gas from Russia.
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