Dutch homeowners who want to make their homes greener with heat pumps are facing a shortage of equipment, installation company Feenstra, one of the largest in the Netherlands, the NL Times reported.
According to installers, heat pumps will be in short supply throughout 2022. The company has had to turn away new customers for several months now.
“Waiting time has become unpredictable. People who make an application for the installation of pumps then wait for more than a year,” said a company representative.
“Spare parts for heat pumps had to come from Ukraine. The demand for them is huge,” he said, adding that supply problems concern heat pumps and inverters for solar panels and the panels themselves.
“These parts come from China. Logistics is very difficult right now. Our competitors also faced this problem,” the representative explained.
Feenstra considers Housing Minister Hugo de Jonge’s plan to make the heat pump mandatory for everyone from 2026 and phase out the central heating system as “unimaginably ambitious.”