6th May 2023
Goodbye fossil fuels! Europe is taking actions!
To meet the EU’s REPowerEU objectives, millions of heat pumps would need to be installed in buildings across the EU, and this measure could lower CO2 emissions by 46% by 2030. More and more countries are banning fossil fuels in heating!
Based on the research from EHPA:
1. AUSTRIA
Ban of oil/coal boilers installation from 2020 in new homes. Plans on banning oil and gas heaters from 2023 in new buildings and on banning oil/coal boilers in existing buildings.
2. BELGIUM
Regional ban in Flanders on the installation of oil boilers in new buildings and renovated ones from 2022. Gas connection ban for large new building projects in Flanders from 2021 and gas connection ban for all new buildings in Flanders from 2025. For Wallonia, no bans have been announced.
3. DENMARK
Use obligation for renewable heating and different zones with exemption regulations. Plans to convert all 400 000 remaining gas boilers, About 50% of buildings will be heated by district heating by 2028 and the rest by heat pumps by 2029.
4. FRANCE
From 1/7/2022 oil boilers banned in all buildings. From 2023 ban on gas boilers in new buildings.
5.GERMANY
Ban on installations of mono-fuel oil/coal boilers from 2026 (new and existing buildings) and regional use of obligations for renewable heating. From 2024, a share of 65% RE in heating in new and existing building-which means a real ban on stand-alone fossil fuel boilers.
6.IRELAND
Oil and gas boilers are to be banned from being installed in both new and existing homes. The ban would apply to newly built homes from 2023 and to installations in existing houses possibly from as early as 2025.
7. ITALY
Share of 60% renewable energies in new buildings from 1/6/2022.
8. LUXEMBOURG
Building requirements that make oil and gas impossible from1.1.2023.
9. NETHERLANDS
Building requirements that make oil and gas impossible from1.1.2023. Ban of connection to the gas grid for new buildings from 2018. From 2026, hybrid heat pumps will be the mandatory minimum standard.
10. NORWAY
Ban on the use of oil and gas for heating in new and existing homes.
11. SLOVAKIA
Plans on banning sales and installation of new fuel and oil boilers by 2023.
12. U.K.
Ban on gas and oil boilers in new buildings from 2025. In Scotland, the new buildings ban will take place in 2024, and existing commitment to legislation prohibiting fossil fuel heating systems in existing buildings at various trigger points from 2025 onwards.
