Economics Minister Habeck wants to ban oil and gas heating from 2024

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Almost half of the approximately 41 million households in Germany heat with natural gas, followed by heating oil with almost 25 percent and district heating with a good 14 percent.

(Photo: IMAGO/Petra Schneider)

Berlin Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) wants to massively accelerate climate protection in the building sector. “The installation of heating systems based exclusively on fossil fuels – especially gas and oil heating – will no longer be permitted from 2024,” says a draft bill from the Ministry of Economic Affairs for the reform of the Building Energy Act (GEG). The draft is available to the Handelsblatt.

The energy transition in the heating sector is central to achieving climate policy goals and reducing dependence on fossil energy imports. “More than a third of the total energy requirement in Germany is used to heat our buildings and to supply hot water,” says the 92-page paper.

More than 80 percent of the heat demand is still covered by the combustion of fossil fuels, it is said. Natural gas dominates in the building heating sector. “We burn more than 40 percent of the natural gas consumed in Germany every year to heat our buildings and supply us with hot water.”

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