ᐅ Not Removing the Oil Heating System After All?

Hello,

I planned to install a heat pump and remove the oil heating system, so I would be eligible for the subsidy.
The application has already been submitted but is not fully approved yet, as the heat pump has not been installed.

Now I am considering keeping the oil heating system to use during the cold winters and use the heat pump for everything else — basically creating a “hybrid” system with renewable energy. There is a subsidy for that as well, right?
Can I still change the application to do this? Or is it too late? Would I have to submit a completely new application? In such an application, is it allowed to continue using the old boiler, or does it have to be replaced as well?

Thank you very much.

I can't comment on the applications. However, consider whether the double maintenance, double troubleshooting, and so on are worth it just to get through the very cold days.

At least for this winter, let it run and see where the path leads.

Will you still get the heat pump installed before winter? If not, then you can see where the energy journey leads after winter.

Besides the maintenance for the oil heating system, you also have the chimney sweep, which you no longer need with a heat pump.

If you are only now considering a heat pump, you definitely won’t get it installed before spring 2023. At least not if you go through a regular installer with whom you have no family ties or long-term friendship.

And that brings us back to this:
Don’t sign a contract at an outrageous price right now. Instead, wait and see how prices for electricity, gas, oil, and heat pumps develop.

Because if the price per kilowatt-hour of electricity suddenly rises above 60 cents in 2023, the heat pump won’t be much of a benefit anymore...

hanse987 schrieb:

Besides the maintenance for the oil heating system, you also have the chimney sweep, which you no longer need with a heat pump.

Are you aware of what costs you’re talking about?