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"The transformation of Europe's residential heating sector — the continent's
largest gas consumption setting — is moving into policy focus amid surging gas
prices and commitments to pivot away from Russian energy imports.
More than 40% of Europe's gas usage is from residential heating, exceeding that
of industry and the electric utility sector.
Some countries already have introduced an end date for installing new gas
boilers. Austria recently legislated a gas and oil heating ban in new buildings
and also the sale of replacements for existing buildings from next year,
accelerating the policy by two years.
"Every gas boiler that we get rid of is another step out of dependency on
Russian gas," Leonore Gewessler, Austria's climate protection minister, said in
a June 13 statement. "Every apartment and house we can heat with sustainable
heating systems makes us more free and less susceptible to blackmail."
Other European nations, including Denmark and the Netherlands, already have
bans on gas-only systems in place."
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