[ejoebstl]

It's incentives. Landlord pays for the installation and decides, tenant for the operation/heating.

Best way to get around this is making heat pumps more accessible (easy to get, financing options), as well as legislation (banning gas/oil heating).

[joe_mamba]

>Best way to get around this is making heat pumps more accessible (easy to get, financing options), as well as legislation (banning gas/oil heating).

So if people on HN see what the solution is, why isn't the Austrian government doing it, to get rid of polluting fossil fuel heating in the cities?

[ejoebstl]

Austria has really good subsidies for households. The "subsidy stop" the article refers to was stopping 100% subsidies. Austria has an incredibly progressive and green environmental and energy policy.

[joe_mamba]

>Austria has really good subsidies for households. Austria has an incredibly progressive and green environmental and energy policy.

Then why are most Austrian apartment buildings in cities still burning oil and gas for heating and not all switched to heat pumps if it's so green and progressive? Why is Graz air quality getting worse and worse?

> The "subsidy stop" the article refers to was stopping 100% subsidies.

Which article? What subsidies? What are you talking about? I never mentioned anything like this.