Intergas will therefore step up its game. Director Jan Cool seems to have no doubts about its feasibility. “We still have about six hectares left,” he says about the possibility to expand. “We can put two more buildings next to this.”
Previously, the cabinet did not seem so eager to let the Dutch make the switch to the hybrid heat pump. For example, houses had to be energy-neutral in one fell swoop, an idea that Jan Cool had always opposed. “We know: the more kilos of steel, plastics and electronics there are in something, the more expensive, bigger and more complicated it becomes. And you don’t want that. If you want to do something with the energy transition and want to speed things up, then homes must first be built in a relatively simple way for 75 or eighty percent of the gas.”
Later you can complete the sustainability process completely, explains Jan Cool. “You can then improve further towards ninety percent and then ten percent remains. We will eventually solve that.”
Watch the report that the NOS made about Intergas here: