Discusses the challenge of phasing out the unabated use of natural gas in the EU within the • Ban installation of new gas boilers in buildings agreed timeframe while maintaining overall security because these consume 39% of natural gas used of energy supplies and affordability for energy in the EU. [...] This new perception is expected to reduce the future role of natural gas in the energy transition Responding to increasing evidence of the destructive and to accelerate its phase-out because consumers outcomes of climate change, the EU has adopted a of natural gas in buildings, industry, and business will Green Deal (EC 2019a) and a Climate Law to reduce switch from natural gas to renewable electr. [...] important will be the energy industry’s capacity to scale However, the invasion of Ukraine created an urgent up the deployment of alternatives (renewables) and need for a new scenario in which two-thirds of the energy efficiency in response to the targets set in the imports of Russian gas would be replaced before the REPowerEU plan (EC 2022a; 2022g). [...] seasonal performance factor (the heat energy output Blends pose challenges for the storage and injection divided by the electrical energy input) of 2.4–3.4, and of the two gases into the network, for monitoring the seasonal performance factors of ground-coupled the quality of the blend across the network, and for heat pumps used in residential buildings in the EU managing small leaks (section 5.8). [...] To replace the use of natural gas in these industries will be one of the biggest challenges for industry and for For more than a decade, research and development EU policy-makers, and the scale of the challenge will be has been continuing across the world on small modular greater in some EU Member States than in others.
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