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| Income from gas was down considerably. Photo: Depositphotos.com |
The Dutch government has set a
target of ensuring one in four Dutch homes no longer relies on gas for heating
or cooking by 2030, according to Diederik Samsom, the former Labour party
leader who is part of the team charged with negotiating the energy transition.
Instead, homes will be heated via geo-thermal pumps or sustainable city heating
networks which either generate heat directly or use excess heat from industry,
Samsom says.
Samson has been asked by the government to reach agreement on the
necessary measures with business and interest groups. In an interview with
Trouw he describes the target as ‘realistic and ambitious’.
In the first year
of the project, 50,000 homes should be cut off from gas and the rate of
transition ramped up in the following years. In addition, no more new homes
should be connected to the gas network, Samsom says.
In Amsterdam, for example,
two new residential districts are being built without gas and some 70,000 homes
in the city are already on district heating networks.
Relatively new, well
insulated homes can start running on heat pumps and electricity – preferably
green energy from wind turbines and solar panels. For older districts that will
often be expensive and complex, says Samsom. With some extra insulation, they
should switch to large-scale heat networks using clean geothermal energy.
The
government said earlier it wants housing to be completely gas free by 2050.
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