2023-06-02 14:19:35
DThe FDP asked – the Federal Ministry of Economics answered: On 45 closely printed pages, the ministry of Robert Habeck (Greens) provides information about energy requirements, gas lines, apartment buildings and all sorts of other details that the liberals in the controversial heating law have not yet sufficiently clarified. But anyone who had hoped that the controversy over the law would be over was wrong. The coalition partners continued to tease each other shortly before the weekend. And experts critical of the law were not impressed by the responses to the FDP that the FAZ received.
“I don’t find the first answer convincing at all. (…) Why is politics so dishonest at the moment?” Veronika Grimm, energy economist and member of the German Advisory Council, commented on Twitter.
Discussion about emission allowances
In the first question, the FDP asked whether it would actually be more economical to implement the regulations in the government draft instead of converting the “building sector” to emission certificate trading before 2027, as the Liberals advocate. The Ministry of Economics responds, citing a study by the Mercator Institute, “that without comprehensive additional instruments such as funding programs and regulatory law in 2030 CO2-Prices of 200 to 300 euros per ton of CO2 would be expected. Currently the price is 30 euros per ton. The experience of last year’s energy crisis shows that “suddenly rising energy prices lead to severe social and economic upheavals”.
The Grimm economy criticizes: “It is completely ignored that the price path can be designed and the climate money is not mentioned either.”
The coalition partners also disagree as to whether the law, which was originally intended to ensure that from the beginning of 2024 every newly installed heating system is operated with at least 65 percent green energy, will be passed before the summer break at the beginning of July. SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert has expressed confidence. He now considers this to be “absolutely realistic,” said Kühnert on Thursday evening on the ZDF program “Maybrit Illner”. “And I think the public has also noticed that many statements and requests to speak on the subject have changed significantly in tone and quality.” He firmly assumes that the law will have its first reading in two weeks during the week of the Bundestag session be on the agenda. “That’s the prerequisite for us to get through the law before the summer break – that’s the aim.”
The liberals sound very different. The deputy parliamentary group leader Christoph Meyer said that after the heating law was started in form and content by the Habeck Ministry with an “unfortunate angle of entry”, one is now coming into a working mode. The answer to the FDP questions forms a basis for this. Kühnert should therefore not build up any “artificial time pressure”. “We don’t need a quick law, we need a good one,” said Meyer. Passing the Building Energy Act before the summer break therefore remains open and should not be an end in itself.
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