Tag: heat transition
How the party scares voters away with its climate protection plans
Berlin The pictures from Weimar are intended to convey a message: We stick together, we will get through this. At the start of the three-day Green parliamentary group retreat, not…
New oil and gas heating systems are to be banned from 2024
Robert Habeck The Economics Minister wants to ban the installation of new oil and gas heating systems. (Photo: IMAGO/Metodi Popov) Berlin, Dusseldorf Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) and Federal…
New pure oil and gas heating systems are to be banned from 2024
Maintenance of a gas boiler 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…
Economics Minister Habeck wants to ban oil and gas heating from 2024
oil heating 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…
The green potential of district heating
combined heat and power plant The Vattenfall combined heat and power plant in Berlin-Lichterfelde supplies around 100,000 households with district heating. It runs on natural gas. (Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa) Berlin…
The government’s hydrogen strategy is a long time coming
The stipulation from the coalition agreement is clear: “The hydrogen strategy will be updated in 2022,” it says. The fact that nothing happened last year was partly due to the…
New heating technologies are on the rise
Handelsblatt Energy Summit Philipp Pausder, Christian Deilmann and Florian Unger (from left) discussed the heat transition with Handelsblatt editor Catiana Krapp. (Photo: Marc-Steffen Unger for Handelsblatt) Berlin A far-reaching upheaval…
Heating companies see upheaval in the heating sector
Handelsblatt Energy Summit Philipp Pausder, Christian Deilmann and Florian Unger (from left) discussed the heat transition with Handelsblatt editor Catiana Krapp. (Photo: Marc-Steffen Unger for Handelsblatt) Berlin A far-reaching upheaval…
The federal government creates incentives for the construction of heating networks
District heating line With the new funding program, the federal government wants to advance the construction and conversion of heating networks. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Choosing the right heating variant presented…
Which heating costs consumers still have to reckon with in 2022
Gas heater is serviced Anyone who heats with gas will have to expect additional costs of many hundreds of euros in a 70 square meter apartment by 2022. (Photo: IMAGO/blickwinkel)…
Consumers have to be prepared for these additional costs
Gas boiler is under maintenance If you heat with gas, you will probably have to reckon with additional costs of 550 euros in a 70 square meter apartment in 2022.…
Where in Germany a lot is still heated with gas heaters
This is how Germany heats up The Germans continue to use gas for heating. Berlin A large number of apartments and houses in Germany are heated with gas – and…
Where in Germany a lot is still heated with gas heaters
Smoking chimneys in southern Germany The Germans still like to heat with gas. (Photo: imago images/avanti) Berlin A large number of apartments and houses in Germany are heated with gas…
What are the obligations of homeowners
Berlin The building sector is one of the major CO2 emitters and thus a key area for achieving climate policy goals. More than 80 percent of the heat demand is…
Power consumption could become the Achilles’ heel
Linden cogeneration plant If the power consumption is too high, gas-fired power plants have to help. (Photo: dpa) Berlin In the fight against dependence on Russian natural gas, electric heat…
Power consumption could become the Achilles heel of the heat pump
Linden cogeneration plant If the power consumption is too high, gas-fired power plants have to help. (Photo: dpa) Berlin In the fight against dependence on Russian natural gas, electric heat…
Power consumption could become the Achilles heel of the heat pump
Linden cogeneration plant If the power consumption is too high, gas-fired power plants have to help. (Photo: dpa) Berlin In the fight against dependence on Russian natural gas, electric heat…
Environmental protection against climate protection – the real estate industry calls for less regulation
Berlin According to the traffic light government, from January 1, 2024, every newly installed heating system should be operated with at least 65 percent renewable energy – a year earlier…
Germany needs more pragmatism in the heat transition
Chancellor Olaf Scholz screwed If the federal government complies with the wishes of the German heating industry for protectionism against foreign competition, the heat pumps available in Germany may become…
Germany needs more pragmatism in the heat transition
Chancellor Olaf Scholz screwed If the federal government complies with the wishes of the German heating industry for protectionism against foreign competition, the heat pumps available in Germany may become…