National Energy Policy

• Saving energy
  • The Ministry of Economic Affairs subsidizes apparatus and systems burning fuels at high efficiency.
  • Electricity companies with heat delivery use about 85 to 95% of the fuel heat.
• Diversity
  • So as not to be dependent on one sort of fuel only, and to gradually introduce a certain security in the energy supply, several fuels are used for heating throughout the country.
  • Gas burning units can be regulated faster than coal fired systems which cover the base load.
• Ecological heating
  • The Ministry of the Environment on the one hand and the public service corporations on the other hand have drawn up plans to limit emissions of C02, NO, and S02.
  • The coordinating organization of the electricity producers has created an electricity and heating concept.
  • This plan concerns the construction of several large-scale total energy power plants at locations where a greater sale of heat is possible.