Vattenfall halts new city heating projects in existing buildings

1 month ago

Noord-Holland rejects plans for wind turbines in Noorder IJ, Amsterdam

NL Times

Politicians in Noord-Holland have nearly unanimously rejected the arrival of three wind turbines in the Noorder IJpolder, Amsterdam, by Oostzaan and Zaanstad. The Provincial Executive was still in favor of the plans at the time until additional research last September showed that an environmental permit could not be granted. “Without wind turbines, we simply cannot step over to sustainable energy …

Amsterdam Wind Wind Turbines Noorder Ij

1 month, 1 week ago

Families on former council estate facing £66,000 bill so Labour can hit net zero heating targets brand councillors hypocrites and say they cannot afford it

Daily Mail

Despairing families on a former London council estate have warned politicians 'don't f****** green me' and branded them 'hypocrites' after being informed they may need to cough up as much as £66,000 towards a new eco-friendly heating system. Residents of a former council estate may have to stump up as much as £66,000 to modernise an ailing heating system in …

Energy Labour Costs Council Cost Residents Estate

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Switch away from gas is good, but who picks up the bill?

Dutch News

A majority of the Dutch back the switch to more sustainable forms of energy, but support shrinks if the process is expensive and the government does not pick up the bill, according to research by the environmental assessment agency PBL. A survey of 2,000 people found that 88% would like the Netherlands to be less reliant on other countries for …

Pbl

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Switch away from gas is good, but who picks up the bill?

Dutch News

A majority of the Dutch back the switch to more sustainable forms of energy, but support shrinks if the process is expensive and the government does not pick up the bill, according to research by the environmental assessment agency PBL. A survey of 2,000 people found that 88% would like the Netherlands to be less reliant on other countries for …

Pbl

5 months ago

Keeping homes cool a big problem in NL, air conditioning is rare

Dutch News

Keeping rental homes cool during heatwaves is a major headache for tenants in the Netherlands, according to new research by national statistics agency CBS. Last year, 34% of households said they could not keep their homes cool on hot days, and the problem was particularly acute for tenants and people living in older buildings. The research also showed that less …

Netherlands

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Climate solution: Massachusetts town experiments with community heating and cooling

Associated Press

Jennifer and Eric Mauchan live in a Cape Cod-style house in Framingham, Massachusetts that they’ve been cooling with five air conditioners. “As soon as they told me about it, I bought in 100%,” said Jennifer Mauchan, who works in finance, remembering her first meeting with representatives from Eversource, the gas and electric utility that installed the system. Richard said she …

Climate Air Gas Natural Gas Jennifer Massachusetts Degrees

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Amsterdam to create 20,000 new homes in existing neighborhoods

NL Times

Amsterdam is changing its housing construction strategy. Instead of building homes in business districts or creating new neighborhoods like in recent years, the city will create 20,000 new homes in existing neighborhoods that need more investment. This way, Amsterdam will remain a good and pleasant city for all its residents in the future.” With the densification, Amsterdam will also invest …

Amsterdam Homes City Existing Neighborhoods

1 year ago

Dutch households switching to fixed energy contracts as price ceiling ends

NL Times

The number of people switching energy providers is increasing in the Netherlands, as reported by consumer organization Vastelastenbond on Thursday. With the government's support measure ending in 2024, households with variable energy contracts exceeding the price ceiling will lose governmental protection. Research from the Authority for Consumers & Markets shows a growing preference for fixed-rate energy contracts among Dutch consumers. …

Rates Fixed Switching Variable Variable Rates Energy Contracts Price Ceiling

1 year ago

Large cities struggling to accommodate homeless people

NL Times

Large cities in the Netherlands are struggling to accommodate the increasing number of homeless people in need of shelter, Trouw reports after speaking to Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Amersfoort, and Den Bosch. “But there are simply too many people and not enough shelter.” Waiting lists are growing for both acute shelters - usually dormitories and shared rooms - and …

Homeless Shelter Homeless People Large Cities Trouw Large Cities Struggling Cities Struggling

1 year ago

13 homes in the Hague without heat for three weeks due to boiler issue

NL Times

Residents of 13 homes on Drentheplantsoen in The Hague have been without heating for three weeks due to an issue with a new central heating boiler, Hart van Nederland reported on Monday. It was discovered that there was a carbon monoxide leak after the installation of new central heating boilers in the apartments at the beginning of November. A resident …

13 Homes

1 year, 1 month ago

Province takes wind out of sails of turbine project in Amsterdam

Dutch News

Plans to build three wind turbines on the edge of a lake in Amsterdam-Noord have been shot down by the Noord-Holland provincial authorities much to the fury of city councillors. The three 200 metre-high turbines, part of a 17 turbine project, were a key part of the city council’s sustainability plans to provide green energy for 200,000 households. Amsterdam energy …

City Councillors

1 year, 8 months ago

Germany tries to reassure homeowners on heating overhaul

Associated Press

BERLIN — The German government sought Wednesday to reassure homeowners that plans to phase out gas or oil heating systems will provide generous transition periods and take into account hardship cases. Almost a third of the energy consumed in Germany goes toward heating and warm water, prompting the government to draft a bill that would require all new heating systems …

Germany German Heating

1 year, 8 months ago

More Dutch providers offering hourly energy rates so consumers can aim for lowest prices

NL Times

Purchasing electricity per hour to get the lowest rate is becoming increasingly popular in the Netherlands. Essent-subsidiary Vandebron just became the first large energy provider to offer this type of dynamic energy contract, offering green electricity at rates that vary per hour, De Telegraaf reports. With dynamic energy contracts, consumers benefit from the rapidly-increasing amount of green electricity from wind …

Energy Dynamic Contracts Lowest Prices

1 year, 8 months ago

Over 340 municipalities refuse to implement energy surcharge for low-income households for Cabinet

NL Times

More than 340 municipalities in the Netherlands are against continuing to implement the energy surcharge for low-income households for the Cabinet. Municipalities are not national implementing organizations and therefore the energy surcharge should again be paid by the government starting next year, argued the Association of Netherlands Municipalities. In order to ease the pain of high prices for low-income households …

Energy Surcharge Cabinet Implement Municipalities Vng Energy Surcharge

1 year, 9 months ago

Raising energy rates may have been illegal for many years

NL Times

Following the ruling against energy supplier Vattenfall regarding "unfair commercial practices" by raising energy rates several times in 2022, price increases by energy suppliers should possibly have been illegal for many years, claims Professor Marco Loos, who specializes in consumer law. Loos' claim is based on the Amsterdam court's ruling against Vattenfall, which was fined heavily by the court last …

Energy Terms Vattenfall Loos

1 year, 9 months ago

Vattenfall not allowed to increase customer's rates multiple times a year, court rules

NL Times

Vattenfall was guilty of “unfair commercial practices” by raising energy rates several times last year, the subdistrict court in Amsterdam ruled. The case concerns a Vattenfall customer whose rates were increased multiple times and who did not want to just accept it. For example, Vattenfall announced a rate change for April 1 - the third of that year - only …

Change Rate Rates Customer Vattenfall

1 year, 9 months ago

About 700 households in Amsterdam do not have an energy contract, threat of disconnection

NL Times

The number of households in Amsterdam that do not have an energy contract is increasing. According to the municipality, this is a group of households that did not take advantage of the help offered by the neighborhood teams when their energy supplier reported payment arrears. "A contract termination and a threatened disconnection of energy supply may be the moment when …

Energy Households

1 year, 10 months ago

Vattenfall to lower energy prices to below price cap for 700,000 customers in April

NL Times

Energy company Vattenfall is lowering its energy rates below the government’s price cap for 700,000 customers from April 1, commercial director Cindy Kroon said in the AD on Tuesday. The energy supplier will lower its rates to just above the price cap, but hundreds of thousands of customers also receive a loyalty discount on the price of electricity that will …

Price Cap Price Cap Vattenfall Energy Rates Kroon

1 year, 11 months ago

Many more customers had trouble paying energy bills in 2022

NL Times

The major energy suppliers Vattenfall and Eneco have seen a significant increase in the number of customers struggling to pay their energy bills over the past year. “After the summer, the number of payment arrears slowly started to creep up, but now the picture is the same as a few weeks ago,” said a spokesperson. “That shows many people are …

Energy Pay Payment Number Increase Customers Vattenfall

2 years ago

Fewer households cut off from electricity and gas despite rising prices

Dutch News

Fewer people are being cut off from household gas or electricity supplies despite soaring prices, according to network operators’ association Netbeheer Nederland. Netbeheer Nederland said only 10% to 15% of engineers who are called out to disconnect a home actually cut off the supply. Meanwhile, research by Ipsos found that 70% of households had turned down the heating since September …

Prices Fewer Supplies Despite

2 years ago

Fewer households cut off from electricity and gas despite rising prices

Dutch News

Fewer people are being cut off from household gas or electricity supplies despite soaring prices, according to network operators’ association Netbeheer Nederland. Netbeheer Nederland said only 10% to 15% of engineers who are called out to disconnect a home actually cut off the supply. Meanwhile, research by Ipsos found that 70% of households had turned down the heating since September …

Prices Fewer

2 years ago

Utrecht the first municipality to force residents off gas network

NL Times

Utrecht will be the first Dutch municipality to forcibly cut residents off natural gas. The city council and housing corporation Mitros consider it necessary to speed up the energy transition and avoid wasting money on renewing gas pipes that won’t be needed in a few years, the Volkskrant reports. If we want to make progress, we have to take these …

Gas Natural Gas Utrecht Gas Network

2 years, 2 months ago

Dutch housing update: prices are down, interest is up

Dutch News

A round-up of the latest housing news, brought to you by Expat Mortgages. House prices and interest rates There are now real signs that the overheated Dutch housing market is cooling down, as interest rates rise and buyers are faced with less borrowing capacity. ‘After all, think of what you will end up paying in rent.’ Legal changes There was …

Interest Rates Interest Henk Expat Mortgages

2 years, 2 months ago

Dutch housing update: prices are down, interest is up

Dutch News

A round-up of the latest housing news, brought to you by Expat Mortgages. House prices and interest rates There are now real signs that the overheated Dutch housing market is cooling down, as interest rates rise and buyers are faced with less borrowing capacity. ‘After all, think of what you will end up paying in rent.’ Legal changes There was …

Interest Rates Interest Henk Expat Mortgages

2 years, 2 months ago

Concerned Rotterdammers: stop demolishing affordable homes

NL Times

A group of concerned Rotterdammers has asked the city council to stop reducing the social housing stock and replacing affordable housing with more expensive houses. The group is making this appeal in response to the Woonvisie, the city's proposed housing policy by the coalition of Liveable Rotterdam, VVD, D66 and DENK. The group, called Recht op de Stad, states that …

Housing Rotterdam City Rotterdammers Woonvisie Recht Op De Stad

2 years, 2 months ago

Lights out, ovens off: Europe preps for winter energy crisis

Associated Press

FRANKFURT, Germany — As Europe heads into winter in the throes of an energy crisis, offices are getting chillier. With costs high and energy supplies tight, Europe is rolling out relief programs and plans to shake up electricity and natural gas markets as it prepares for rising energy use this winter. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said this month that early …

Energy Europe Winter Russia Germany Costs Prices

2 years, 3 months ago

Resistance to wind turbines in municipalities is decreasing

NL Times

More and more Dutch people are open to the idea of installing turbines or solar parks in their municipalities. Resistance has decreased due to the war in Ukraine and the impact of the sanctions against Russia, according to research agency Motivaction after a poll among more than a thousand Dutch people. According to the Dutch Association for Sustainable Energy, which …

Energy Ukraine Dutch Sustainable Energy

2 years, 3 months ago

Netherlands to pay down energy bills for residents who fall into debt: Report

NL Times

The Dutch government and the country’s energy companies could assist households in paying their gas and electricity bills when they are unable to do so. Rising energy prices are putting as many as a million households in financial trouble, including 600,000 who have never had issues making payments in the past, according to NOS. People who fall behind on their …

Energy Nos Energy Companies

2 years, 3 months ago

Amsterdam stricter than other municipalities with energy bill assistance

NL Times

Amsterdam is applying stricter conditions to the energy bill assistance for low-income households than other municipalities. Unlike other municipalities, the Dutch capital also uses a capital limit - anyone with 6,295 euros or more in the bank does not qualify for the allowance, Parool reports. Amsterdam automatically transferred the first 800 euros to 77,000 locals who received social assistance benefits …

Amsterdam Capital Euros Limit Allowance Other Municipalities

2 years, 4 months ago

New energy contract €4,000 more expensive than a year ago

NL Times

Netherlands residents who have to conclude a new energy contract will pay almost 6,500 euros for gas and electricity annually. Energy prices have been rising since May last year, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine exacerbated the increase significantly. For gas, that was 80 cents per cubic meter, and those rates are already rising from 2.50 to 3 euros per …

Energy Prices Energy Prices

2 years, 6 months ago

Half of applicants in major cities yet to receive energy benefit

NL Times

Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague have not yet paid half of the people who are entitled receive government money to help pay their energy bills. The cities are supposed to give 800 euros in energy bill support to households that make up to 120 percent of the minimum income, although these numbers vary by location. The Cabinet set aside …

Energy Money Nos Rotterdam

2 years, 7 months ago

Amsterdam mayor cuts back on pavement cafes in busy city centre

Dutch News

Amsterdam bar owners are preparing to take legal action after mayor Femke Halsema said she would withdraw extra permits for pavement cafes in the busy city centre. However, Halsema told the Parool newspaper at the weekend that the additional terrace permits in the red light district and Nieuwenmarkt area would be withdrawn from Friday because of the impact on locals. …

Cafes Mayor Told

2 years, 8 months ago

The new government has plans to get the housing market moving

Dutch News

Plenty of things have been happening on the housing market since the start of the year, when the Netherlands got a new government. Investors Local councils have already been taking action to try to loosen the grip of the private sector on the housing market – for example by stopping investors buying up cheaper homes and renting them out. The …

Homes Housing Netherlands Local Mortgage House Buy

2 years, 9 months ago

VAT scrapped for insulation, solar panels and heat pumps in bid to curb bills

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy VAT will be scrapped for energy efficiency measures such as …

Energy Energy Efficiency Gas Solar Panels Bills Vat Heat Pumps

2 years, 9 months ago

€50 million for 14 areas to take gas out of homes

Dutch News

Fourteen local areas have been chosen to share a €50 million subsidy to develop domestic housing with alternatives to gas. ‘Given the current developments, we really need sustainable sources of energy, and we need to make more progress in reaching climate goals and ensuring that the Netherlands is no longer dependent on gas.’ Many of the areas have submitted plans …

Gas Areas

2 years, 9 months ago

€50 million for 14 areas to take gas out of homes

Dutch News

Fourteen local areas have been chosen to share a €50 million subsidy to develop domestic housing with alternatives to gas. ‘Given the current developments, we really need sustainable sources of energy, and we need to make more progress in reaching climate goals and ensuring that the Netherlands is no longer dependent on gas.’ Many of the areas have submitted plans …

Gas Areas

2 years, 9 months ago

Netherlands won't manage to build 1 million homes in 10 years

NL Times

The Netherlands won't manage to build a million homes in the next ten years, people involved said to newspaper AD. According to Van Zanen, municipalities will need at least 2 billion euros extra per year to achieve the government's housing construction goals. According to Verhagen, it is impossible to build 100,000 new homes per year if you work traditionally. The …

Construction Building Build Extra Homes

3 years ago

Markets watchdog warns district heating firms about price rises

Dutch News

District heating suppliers have been warned not to put up the price of their services by more than 67% next year by markets regulator ACM. District heating companies are allowed by law to put up their prices in line with the cost of gas, but the ACM has told firms not to increase their charges by the maximum amount. Consumers …

Maximum Price

3 years ago

Markets watchdog warns district heating firms about price rises

Dutch News

District heating suppliers have been warned not to put up the price of their services by more than 67% next year by markets regulator ACM. District heating companies are allowed by law to put up their prices in line with the cost of gas, but the ACM has told firms not to increase their charges by the maximum amount. Consumers …

Maximum Price

3 years, 1 month ago

Amsterdam to ban investors from buying cheaper properties to rent out

Dutch News

Amsterdam city council plans to stop investors buying up cheaper properties and renting them out, when new legislation comes into force in January. New housing chief Jakob Wedemeijer plans to bring in the ban as soon as possible for the entire city. It would mean investors could not buy any property for less than €512,000 without a commitment to live …

Rent

3 years, 1 month ago

Amsterdam to ban investors from buying cheaper properties to rent out

Dutch News

Amsterdam city council plans to stop investors buying up cheaper properties and renting them out, when new legislation comes into force in January. New housing chief Jakob Wedemeijer plans to bring in the ban as soon as possible for the entire city. It would mean investors could not buy any property for less than €512,000 without a commitment to live …

Rent

3 years, 1 month ago

How the Netherlands is turning its back on natural gas

BBC

How the Netherlands is turning its back on natural gas Getty Images The Netherlands is closing its largest gas field, and seeking new methods to heat homes instead Natural gas has provided the Netherlands with cheap heat for generations. Houses right on top of the gas field going gas-free seems like a clear sign the heat transition has arrived in …

Energy Europe Homes Climate Netherlands Credit Heat

3 years, 2 months ago

Groningen gas fields won't be re-opened because of price rises: ministers

Dutch News

The Netherlands will not increase natural gas production from the Groningen fields to head off the impact of soaring gas prices, home affairs minister Kajsa Ollongren and economic affairs minister Stef Blok said on Friday. The gas taps will only be turned on again if there are very cold winters, not for price rises, the ministers said. Gas prices have …

Gas Groningen

3 years, 2 months ago

Groningen gas fields won't be re-opened because of price rises: ministers

Dutch News

The Netherlands will not increase natural gas production from the Groningen fields to head off the impact of soaring gas prices, home affairs minister Kajsa Ollongren and economic affairs minister Stef Blok said on Friday. The gas taps will only be turned on again if there are very cold winters, not for price rises, the ministers said. Gas prices have …

Gas Groningen

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