The Uncertainty Among Tenants About The Affordability of A Heat Network is a Major Reason Why They are Hesitant to Give Their Consent. Housing Corporations Cannot Provide Guarantees About the Costs. This hindrance The Energy Transition.
“Especiate for Tenants of Social Housing, Uncertainty About Long-Term Affordability is a Major Stumbling Block in the Transition to a Heat Network,” Writes Regulator Consumer & Market Authority (ACM). The ACM Spoke with Housing Corporations and Tenant Organizations, Among Others.
Housing Corporations Generally Do Their Best To Informants, The ACM Concludes. However, they of Cannot Provide Guarantees About Long-Term Affordability. The Costs and Tariffs are Too Uncertain for That.
“Because HOUSING CORPORIATIONS CANNOT PROVIDE CHUARANTEES OBFORDability, Tenants Are Reluctant To Give Their Consent,” The Acm Writes. “That slows down the heat transition.”
All homes must be natural gas-free by 2050, and a Large Portion of Those Homes Belong to Housing Corporations. Accordance to the regulator, Connecting to a Heat Network is Usually the Most Efficient and Sustainable Way to Make a Home Natural Gas-Free.
Heat Networks Back in Government Hands
The Uncertainty Has Been Plaguing Heat Networks for Some Time. In April 2024, Utrecht announced that it wants to regulate Heat Networks itself, because housing corporations and energy suppliers such as eneco and fatsfall had dropped out. The Municipality of Utrecht Will Probable Make a Decision on this this fall.
To get the construction of heat Networks Back on Track Nationally, The House of Representatives Approved A Law in July This Year that Puts Heat Networks Back in Government Hands. Several Cabinets Rewrote the Law and the Adoption was Postponed for Years. The Senate is Currently Considering IT.