2023-10-10 19:52:25
Even though the Building Energy Act (GEG) was first defused and then passed, the exact guidelines on how the replacement of heating systems should be promoted in the future are still missing. The rules should actually be available by the end of September, but it is only on Wednesday that the Bundestag Committee for Energy and Climate Protection will be informed about the funding guidelines for federal funding for efficient buildings (BEG). What is still controversial are details that have been debated for months.
“The state elections in Bavaria and Hesse were also a vote of no confidence in the traffic light’s climate policy,” says the energy and climate policy spokesman for the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Andreas Jung, WELT. The federal government “created a social flank” through the heating law without a simultaneous funding guideline and thus lost the consent of many people.
“That’s why we finally need clarity for reliable heating funding; the confusion must end,” demands the CDU MP. “Contrary to all assurances, the new obligations were first decided and then funding is now being discussed.”
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The homeowners still have no reliable answer to the question of how much support they will receive. “What is on the table raises more questions than it answers: In many cases this would not be better support, but rather an additional cut – after the traffic light already reduced funding last year.”
It is clear that there should be a basic subsidy of 30 percent for replacing the heating system if the new model can be operated with at least 65 percent renewable energy. In addition, there will be further funding of up to 30 percent for owners who live in their property and have a taxable income of a maximum of 40,000 euros.
In addition, owners of owner-occupied properties who replace a heating system that is at least 20 years old by 2028 will receive an additional 20 percent speed bonus. However, the maximum funding can be 70 percent.
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And there is another limitation that the Union is now sharply criticizing. There will be cases in the future in which the funding conditions will actually worsen as a result of the planned rule. Previously, a maximum amount of 60,000 euros applied to all energy-related renovations in a calendar year.
So far this has also included replacing a heater. Further renovation measures, such as better building insulation, can also be supported in the future. However, the limit values are 30,000 euros for the heating and 30,000 euros for the rest of the renovation.
If there is a restructuring plan, up to 60,000 euros can be funded additionally. Overall, the maximum possible amount is 90,000 euros (30,000 euros for replacing the heating system and up to 60,000 euros for other renovation measures).
Reductions possible for very expensive systems
In cases where only a very expensive heating system is to be installed, but no other renovation measures are required, only 30,000 euros will be eligible for funding in the future; previously it would have been up to 60,000 euros. The Union demands that the eligible costs must not be reduced.
The speed bonus must also be extended to all types of buildings and owners, said Union Vice President Jung. So far, an income limit and the condition that you have to use the property yourself have also applied here. In order to end the reluctance to buy, property owners should also be able to decide whether they want to choose the old or the new funding conditions.
It is also particularly important to the Union that the condition that wood and pellet heating systems should only be eligible for funding is removed if they are combined with a photovoltaic system, solar thermal energy or a heat pump.
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“The combination requirement for wood combustion systems must be removed again in the interests of technological openness. Bioenergy should be capped again through the back door of the funding conditions,” says Jung. Overall, what is needed is a “fundamental new start for a social and technologically open heating transition”.
Michael Hilpert, President of the Central Association for Sanitary, Heating and Air Conditioning (ZVSHK), expressed similar criticism at the German Heat Conference on Tuesday in Berlin: The technological openness anchored in the Building Energy Act “is being undermined again in the BEG draft,” the trade president warned: “What should “What do we tell our customers?” If clarity is not quickly created regarding the promotion of heating replacement, “customers will continue to nail us to the wall.”
The FDP member of the Bundestag Daniel Föst, however, was confident at the industry congress: The funding will soon be determined and then it will be seen that the heating law “will not overwhelm anyone”. In the end, there will be “good integration between the Building Energy Act, funding guidelines and municipal heat planning.”
Applications for funding for heat pumps are currently declining
The CEO of the Vaillant Group, Norbert Schiedeck, also held back criticism. The growth of the heating market in Germany is currently “fantastic,” said Schiedeck: “It will be a fantastic year,” even if there are “a few clouds on the horizon.”
Schiedeck was alluding to the sharp decline in funding applications for heat pumps. But once the uncertainty in Germany is overcome, the market across Europe will not ignore the heat pump, Schiedeck said with certainty.
Since taking office in 2014, he has seen “several countries transform 100 percent from gas to heat pumps without there being a similar discussion.”
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