Adnkronos Rome, May 13 (Adnkronos) – “We have no ambition to wage war on electricity or other sustainable solutions: we simply want to highlight the principle of technological neutrality, that is, the possibility of using, if possible, different solutions that are equally valid for consumers and users, who must be put in a position to choose the most appropriate solution on a case-by-case basis”.
This was stated by the president of Assogasliquidi-Federchimica Matteo Cimenti on the sidelines of an event organised at the European Parliament on decarbonisation in residential consumption.
“The European legislator in the past legislature has chosen a path that focuses entirely on electric,” Cimenti said, focusing on the challenges posed by the directive on the energy performance of buildings. The European law, which came into force in 2024 and has been renamed the “Green Homes” directive, sets a deadline for the gradual elimination of fossil fuel boilers by 2040. “Most buildings do not have the capacity to have an electric heat pump due to space, cost and age of the buildings,” he stressed.
“Many buildings can be decarbonized instead through technologically existing solutions such as condensing boilers, which are now able to use increasing percentages of gas of renewable origin”. The directive, explained the president of Assogasliquidi, “has gradually increasing objectives in view of the ban on the installation of gas boilers”. “We need to understand whether it is scientifically and concretely: according to the study we presented today, it is not possible for a part of the buildings”, said Cimenti before showing interested parties and MEPs the report commissioned together with the associations Proxigas, Assogas, Federchimica-Assogasliquidi, Assotermica and Utilitalia.