In France, the 2020 environmental regulations (RE2020) are intended, if not to eliminate, at least to drastically reduce the use of natural gas for heating new buildings in France by 2030. New York State has just made a decision that may seem even more radical: the total ban, from 2029 and for all new buildings, of stoves and heaters on gas. The court’s 2023-2024 budget, which has just been approved, “plans to impose ovens, plates and electric heaters in future constructions”, according to a statement by New York parliamentarians and the Washington Post, quoted by Agence France presse (AFP). The objective: to reduce the state’s dependence on fossil fuels. “The gas ban, if the law is enacted and not overturned in court, will have to apply in small residential and office buildings of less than seven floors by 2026 and three years later for towers. .” This decision is obviously a first across the Atlantic.
In France, if the question of excluding gas heating is present in people’s minds, the idea of banning stoves has not emerged. Heating with natural gas has, as a reminder, been made impossible in single-family homes by the entry into force of the RE2020, in January 2022; the new, more demanding thresholds of this regulation could, from 2025, lead to the same result in collective housing. The only possibility of maintaining the gas: the use of hybrid heat pumps or green gas.
2023-05-09 09:32:00
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