Clean Energy Wire
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Germany should drop plans to increase the share of green gases in heating networks as part of a law reform to clean the sector, an alliance including energy companies E.ON and EWE as well as environmental organisations BUND and DUH said. A blanket green gas quota in the buildings sector should be avoided, the group stated in an open letter seen by Tagesspiegel Background.
The unusual alliance argued that the buildings sector should primarily achieve its decarbonisation targets through electrification, district heating expansion and energy efficiency, while scarce biomethane and other green gases should be used in sectors where alternatives are technically difficult to realise or come with high costs.
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