District Heating Crisis: Real Estate Associations Sound Alarm for Robert Habeck’s Energy Transition Plan

District Heating Crisis: Real Estate Associations Sound Alarm for Robert Habeck’s Energy Transition Plan

By: Jan W. Schäfer Robert Habeck (54, Green Party)’s energy transition problems are not going away. Now nine real estate associations are sounding the district heating alarm! In a letter to Habeck (available exclusively from BILD), they make it clear: The district heating rules from Habeck’s Ministry of Economic Affairs urgently need to be revised. … Read more

Berlin Pensioners Seek Refuge at Caritas Warming Room as Heating Costs Soar

Berlin Pensioners Seek Refuge at Caritas Warming Room as Heating Costs Soar

Berlin – You have worked hard for years. But in the end, their pension is not enough to heat their homes in winter. For more and more Berlin pensioners, the only option left is to escape to the warming room. The Caritas warming room at Bundesplatz in Berlin-Wilmersdorf has long been more than a refuge … Read more

Maximizing Funding for Heat Pump Installations: A Guide for Germans

Maximizing Funding for Heat Pump Installations: A Guide for Germans

Our heaters should be cleaner in the future! By 2028 at the latest, newly installed heating systems must be able to be operated in a manner that is at least 65 percent climate-neutral. This is what the traffic light government’s heating law, which has been revised several times, provides for. Many Germans are now thinking … Read more

Dresden builders resolve dispute with Habeck over energy crisis.

Dresden – Homeowners in Germany fear: Oil heating ban from next year? Compulsory renovations when your own four walls become an energy slingshot? Holger Schubert (41) from Dresden wants to do everything right – before Habeck’s restructuring hammer takes hold. But he becomes a boomerang for him! Because the Saxon monument protection does not play … Read more

Money for heating oil and pellets – and many questions are still open

Energy expert from the North Rhine-Westphalia Consumer Advisory Center Udo Sieverding talks about “good news” about WDR. Recently, there have been many complaints from those affected. “The pressure has been great because so far everything has been focused on the electricity price brake and the gas price brake,” he said in an interview with WDR. … Read more

‘Being here is always more beneficial’

NOS / Rop Zoutberg News from the NOS•today, 19:50 Rop Zoutberg correspondent Spain Rop Zoutberg correspondent Spain A striking consequence of the current crisis: energy tourism is taking off in Spain. In tour operators and hotels we see more and more bookings from Northern Europeans who, in addition to the cold, also escape from the … Read more

High heating costs: tenants must take this into account

October 2, 2022, 11:53 am Unlawful General Claims : Tenants should take this into account if heating costs are high – A flat-rate increase in operating costs for heating by the landlord is not permitted (symbol image). Photo: dpa / Hauke-Christian Dittrich – – Dusseldorf More and more desperate members are contacting tenant associations because … Read more

Heat properly: These simple tips will save you money and electricity

A replacement is most likely to be considered in houses that are heated with oil. Because oil will become more and more expensive simply due to the rising CO2 tax. In addition, new oil heaters will only be permitted as hybrid solutions from 2026. And oil boilers older than 30 years must be replaced by … Read more

How expensive will heating still be?

– heating costs Real estate has to be heated – but this is becoming more and more expensive. An evaluation by Immowelt shows how expensive it is for tenants in German cities. – (Photo: dpa) – – – – Frankfurt Rising energy prices can not only be seen at the petrol pumps – many tenants … Read more

This is how expensive heating is for German tenants

Smoking chimney Real estate has to be heated – but this is becoming more and more expensive. An evaluation by Immowelt shows how expensive it is for tenants in German cities. – (Photo: dpa) – – – – Frankfurt Rising energy prices can not only be seen at the petrol pumps – many tenants will … Read more