The Association of Electrical Energy Companies (aelēc) positively values the Building Efficiency Directive published by the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), since “it represents a step forward towards aim of decarbonization and reduction of the consumption of fuels fossils in all the Union European“, according to president of aelēc, Marina Serrano.
This directive prohibits the use of fossil fuels in 2040 for heating and refrigeration in the residential sector. In addition, it prevents giving incentives for the installation of fossil boilers starting next year.
“Today a great step has been taken in Europe’s energy transition, since this Directive increases the ambition with respect to the current Directive, promoting the electrification of buildings, putting limits on the growth of fossil boilers and valuing renewable energies through of urban heating and cooling networks, in line with Spain’s decarbonization objectives”, expands Marina Serrano.
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Subsidies for fossil boilers will be prohibited from 2025 and, in addition, the Directive requires an end to fossil boilers in 2040. Therefore, Highlander adds that ““All new homes should be built from now on with clean heating systems, saving citizens from having to invest in changing the heating in their new homes in a short period of time.”
Furthermore, this new legislative text defines zero-emission buildings as an efficient building construction with zero or very low primary energy consumption, which does not generate on-site fossil fuel emissions and generates very low operating emissions. To do this, the energy must come from renewable sources of self-consumption, local self-consumption, energy communities or renewable energies from the electrical grid.
With your approval, aelēc requests the Government to quickly transpose it into Spanish legislationand that aid for heating systems be focused on clean solutions immediately, which will allow progress in the decarbonization of the country and the reduction of dependence on fossil fuels.
