A coalition of 30 organisations including NGOs, businesses, and city representatives sent a letter to the European Commission’s Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, on Thursday 23 September, urging him to phase out the sale of new fossil fuel boilers in the European Union within this decade.
According to these organisations, this measure is “crucial to meet the EU’s climate and energy targets and to strengthen the Union’s competitiveness in renewable heating technologies”.
Pointing out that the International Energy Agency (IEA) calls for such a ban from 2025 in the ‘roadmap’ for the decarbonisation of the energy sector it published in May (see EUROPE 12721/27), the organisations signing the letter believe that this should be done in the context of the proposals to revise the ecodesign measures for heating devices (Regulation 813/2013) and water heaters (Delegated Regulation 812/2013), through higher minimum energy efficiency requirements.
Both of these revision proposals are scheduled for the second quarter of 2023.
In addition, the organisations believe that the proposed revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD, 2010/31), due on 14 December, should ban the direct combustion of fossil fuels in new buildings.
See the letter: https://bit.ly/39wmPFM (Original version in French by Damien Genicot)