ᐅ Ban on Gas Heating Lifted Starting in 2025

Created on: 19 Jul 2022 12:01
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A complete ban on gas heating starting in 2024 is no longer planned. Instead, homeowners will be allowed to install gas heat pump hybrid systems or other fuel-based central heating systems in the future. Additionally, hardship exemptions and extended deadlines for replacement will be introduced. This is outlined in a concept paper by the federal government.

The previously favored obligation for homeowners will also be relaxed; going forward, both in new construction and existing buildings, only heating systems that use at least 65 percent renewable energy should "preferably" be installed. The coalition agreement had initially planned to introduce this requirement in 2025, but it is now being brought forward by one year to 2024.

The government intends to offer homeowners six options to meet the 65 percent target: heat pumps, biomass, green gas, hybrid systems, electric direct heating, or connection to a district heating network.
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WilderSueden
19 Jul 2022 17:37
No, just like e-fuels, it’s a way to avoid telling people that gas heating is basically obsolete.
I still see hybrid heating systems as a practical option.
For example, in our current apartment building—over 60 units, built monolithically with 20cm (8 inches) reinforced concrete walls, and a ratio of 0.7 square meters (7.5 square feet) of radiators per 20 square meters (215 square feet) of living room space. Completely upgrading to a heat pump would be very expensive, but since there are so many apartments (and possibly two neighboring buildings are connected to the same heating system), the investment in two heating systems pays off.
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Steven
20 Jul 2022 11:44
Deliverer schrieb:

What exactly is "green gas"? Where can I buy it? Does it flow through separate pipelines?

Hello Deliverer

I see this forum has been collectively taken over by the "Green Reich."
OK, so let's continue here with some populism.
Your trampoline jumper once mentioned that you store electricity in the grid. Maybe some green gas comes out of that process as well, to make more room for the electricity storage.

Steven
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Deliverer
20 Jul 2022 11:54
Stop spreading your nonsense. Do you have an answer to my question, or don’t you?
Tolentino20 Jul 2022 11:55
Why do some people still insist on seeing the grid as a storage system? Ms. Baerbock never said that the grid is a storage but that the grid functions as storage. This has also been confirmed by much smarter experts. That is why we need the expansion of the grid across Europe and also renewable energy (RE) throughout Europe. So that a period of low renewable generation and high demand ("dark doldrums") becomes increasingly unlikely or can be compensated by more consumers connected to the grid.
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Steven
20 Jul 2022 16:31
Hello

I just came across a headline from the Bild newspaper dated August 8, 1975:
"40 degrees heat, now the weather becomes life-threatening."
Climate change hadn’t been discovered yet, Greta wasn’t born, CO₂ was just some gas. And the Greens were ordinary communists, with whom decent people wanted nothing to do.
Still, it was warm in the summer.

Steven
Tolentino20 Jul 2022 16:39
It’s not that hot summers have never occurred before.
The issue is that they are happening more frequently within shorter periods, precipitation is decreasing, and weather patterns are becoming more extreme. In short: the weather has always changed, but the climate has only started to change recently (from a geological perspective).
The explosions are getting closer, yet some still believe this has nothing to do with the fact that we are speeding through a minefield.