2023-06-30 16:38:41
The factions of the SPD, Greens and FDP have agreed on how the Building Energy Act (GEG) should be changed. The amendments to the draft law by Federal Economics and Climate Protection Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) were sent to the Bundestag’s climate and energy committee on Friday. An expert hearing scheduled for Monday is to take place as planned. In the days that follow, the traffic light parties in the Bundestag want to pass the law in the second and third readings.
According to the changes, the obligation that from the beginning of 2024 every newly installed heating system must be operated with 65 percent renewable energy will initially only apply in new building areas. In existing buildings and in new buildings that close a vacant lot, conventional heating should continue to be allowed to be installed until the municipal heating plan is completed.
For cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, this regulation should apply until June 30, 2026, in smaller municipalities until June 30, 2028. In these cases, unlike what has been planned in the meantime, not only the installation of a hydrogen-compatible gas heating system should be allowed, but also one oil heating. From the beginning of 2029, however, these heaters must generate at least 15 percent of the heat from biomass or hydrogen, from 2035 at least 30 percent and from 2040 at least 60 percent. Wood heating should remain permitted without restrictions.
Even where there is actually an obligation to install a heating system using renewable energy sources, a heating system using fossil fuels can be installed again for a maximum of five years. Previously, this transitional period was only supposed to be three years.
A comment by Ralph Bollmann, Berlin Published/Updated: 23 minutes ago , Recommendations: 4 Carsten Knop Published/Updated: , Recommendations: 202 Julia Löhr, Hendrik Kafsack, Christian Schubert and Klaus Max Smolka Published/Updated: , Recommendations: 74 Julia Löhr , Berlin Published/Updated: , Recommendations: 15
The idea, discussed by the parties in the meantime, of exempting owners from the age of eighty from the new rules of the GEG has been dropped. For people with low incomes – or pensions – there should be higher subsidy rates. Climate protection and social balance now go hand in hand, according to the SPD parliamentary group. The Greens praised the agreement. FDP parliamentary group leader Christian Dürr said there were no bans or interference with property, “but there were many technologies”.
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