The European Commission has published recommendations for stop financing boilers that use fossil energy with public aida measure that the States must carry out, no later than next January 1. The recommendations from Brussels come as a first step before issuing measures to permanently ban them. This is at the same time that the gas companies defend the use of the current network infrastructure and the consulting firm EY quantified the savings in extra costs due to the use of renewable gases in the energy transition at 73 billion euros compared to a scenario of high electrification.
Sources from the Directorate General of Energy of the European Commission explained that starting in 2040, governments will have to develop a plan that facilitates the abandonment of the use of this type of installations that use conventional fuels. However, they indicated that no decision has been made yet for facilities that could use other types of fuels such as biomethane, although they assured that there is concern about the capacity of this technology to meet the needs of the market.
In this sense, the Commission seeks to encourage heating systems based on renewable energy and hybrid systems, the latter as a “transitional” solution.
Sources from the gas sector clarify that those boilers powered by fossil fuels are those that directly burn these hydrocarbons or are independent and are not combined with renewable sources. For boilers connected to the network, it will depend on the mixture proportion with which the network works, so that if it is predominantly natural gas should not receive incentives and, on the contrary, if you use mostly renewable fuels you will be able to receive aid.
This will be a decision for the Member States what percentage of renewable gas is necessary for the mix to be consider “predominant”indicate these same sources.
Gas companies, for their part, defend the need to have boiler infrastructure that can use renewable gases without additional costs. The report presented yesterday by EY specified that reinforcing this commitment would allow the investment costs of decarbonization to be reduced. According to the consulting firm’s experts, although it may have a higher operating cost over the years, it does not need large investments to implement unlike the high electrification scenario.
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