What you need to know about thermal transitions.
Anyone who currently owns a home is faced with a decision sooner or later: How to keep warm in the future? In mid-April, the federal government decided that from 2024 all newly installed heating systems should be operated with at least 65 percent renewable energy. Pure oil and gas heating systems are threatened with extinction.
The Regulations contain numerous exceptions, transitional rules and funding modalities. This doesn’t make maintaining the overview any easier.
What heating options are there other than a heat pump? Which are the cheapest? What exactly does the state support? When is a good time to replace your heating system?
Handelsblatt regularly reports on costs, trends and regulations in the heating and heat pump sector.
We have summarized the most important advice texts and reports for you in this archive: All information about your heating replacement.
Contents – Advice on heat pumps and heating alternatives:
Banning oil and gas for heating: What’s changing for property owners
From 2024, the federal government wants to rely on renewable energy when installing new heating systems. There should still be exceptions. Program overview.
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Heat Exchangers and Heat Pumps 2024: Money Matters
The federal government wants to make the installation of modern heating systems and heat pumps more attractive with extra funding. These are the rules.
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Heat Pumps Instead of Oil Heating: What Owners Should Know
The days of natural gas and oil heating are numbered according to federal requirements. What alternatives are available and how much they cost.
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Gas heating: Are heat pumps worth it in comparison?
New regulations and high energy prices are driving the switch to gas heating. How much does it cost to replace heat pumps, district heating and pellet heating.
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Old Buildings: When Are Heat Pumps Worth It?
Heat pumps are considered the best way to make existing buildings climate neutral. But the technology has drawbacks in older buildings.
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Shared Heat Pumps: What Neighbors Should Consider
Installing a heat pump heating system can be expensive and time-consuming – but the equipment can also be shared. Consumer advocates advise homeowners.
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Thermal conversion abroad: why it’s going so well in France and Italy
Germany is grappling with numerous problems with heat conversion. Italy and France sold more new equipment in 2022. What a difference there.
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Gas heating: still worth buying for whom in 2023?
Gas water heaters are less expensive than heat pumps. But natural gas is expensive — and it could get even more expensive in the future. This has paid off for over 20 years.
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Review: Stay Away From New Oil or Gas Heating
Many want to quickly install gas-only or oil-fired heating systems before they are banned in 2024. That’s unwise.
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