The city of Nijmegen is the European Green capital of 2018 and is very active in stopping the use of natural gas for heating of residential houses and warm water preparation. Their purpose is stopping the use of natural gas for heating and warm water preparation, effectively reducing the co2 output to 0 when using green power.
Project details
Type: HPCY
Year of Submission: 2019
Funding From: Private
Continent: Europe
Country: Netherlands
City: Nijmegen
Organisation: Nathan Group
Sector Of Application: Residential
Renovation: Yes
Social Housing: No
Industrial: No
Website: -
Special Consideration: -
Resource Prezentation: Yes
Extra Resources: No
Remarks: Governments are not well informed about the potential of the heat pump. Often not the best solutions are chosen, such as biomass based city heating or hydrogen. Heat pumps are a more efficient and cost effective solution, but if governments don’t know this, wrong choices are made.
