Danish District Heating criticizes the government's budget bill proposal for not allocating money to the district heating pool or to secure the electricity supply. Without funding, projects to phase out gas risk being slowed down. This is what Dansk Fjernvarme writes.
In 2024, 74 percent of homeowners who dropped gas boilers switched to district heating. Yet the pool, which is to support new conversions, is not mentioned in the proposal. Over 270,000 gas boilers are still in operation, and 75 percent of them are located in areas that can be connected to the district heating network.
- We must completely eliminate fossil gas from our home heating. It is the district heating companies that, together with the municipalities, have made the greatest contribution to this effort. It is not time for us to let go of the reins and give up on the green transition of the heating supply. Therefore, the government and the Danish Parliament should also allocate funds in the upcoming budget law so that we can continue our work, says Kim Mortensen, CEO of Dansk Fjernvarme.
The organization also calls for support for CHP plants, which are necessary to ensure a stable electricity supply – especially when lower electricity taxes and more heat pumps increase electricity consumption.
- District heating is on its way to becoming one of the sectors with the highest electricity consumption, second only to data centers. Of course, this only makes sense if we can count on there being power at the switch, always. Therefore, the Danish Parliament should allocate funds for the CHP plants that are necessary to ensure the electricity supply, so that they have an incentive to continue operating before they individually go out of operation because there is not enough money to maintain them, says Kim Mortensen.
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