Energy crisis: Rotterdam-Charlois apartment residents in trouble due to heating block, price cap does not apply to them

In the Netherlands, according to data from the Dutch Association for Consumption-Dependent Energy Regulation, 600,000 homes are equipped with autonomous heating, reports the NOS. These are mainly large apartments built in the 1960s, but many other residential groups also have this type of connection. “Often these are old apartments with such a heating system,” explains MEP Pieter Omtzigt. “Often also apartments where people with a lower income live. If you want to make sure people don’t go below subsistence level, you just have to help this group. ‘