Municipalities to prepare for gas network decommissioning

In its efforts to dismantle large parts of the gas network in the long term, the German Ministry for Economic Affairs has received backing from the EU Parliament. In the future, municipalities are to be obliged to carry out heat planning, which will also include strategic planning for the decommissioning of gas distribution networks. This is stated in a draft report for the Parliament’s Industry Committee on the revision of the gas market directive. The author of the draft is the chairman of the SPD MEPs, Jens Geier.