Rodi
2017
Photo: Erwin Dijkgraaf
For Ana and Martin it was only logical to make the switch to a gas-free house. She is an associate professor of Sustainability and Heritage at TU Eindhoven and he is a Sustainability policy advisor at housing association Vestia. With these professions you can hardly help but make your own home as sustainable as possible.
To combat climate change, the government wants to limit and ultimately even stop the use of fossil fuels such as natural gas as much as possible. The aim is for all Dutch homes to be natural gas-free by 2050. Ana and Martin have already made the switch to natural gas-free living. “We no longer have a central heating boiler, but a heat pump. In short, it takes heat from the air and transfers it to the heating system,” Martin explains. “We cook on an induction plate. That works just like gas; There are no kernels that stay warm for a long time or that heat up slowly, it happens quickly.”
“We just had to try out how to best program our thermostat, because the heat output is different from our central heating boiler,” says Ana. “But you're so used to that.”