The law on heating planned by Economics Minister Robert Habeck and State Secretary Patrick Graichen is already extremely controversial. From 2024, new oil and gas heating systems should therefore no longer be possible, because every new heating system has to run on 65 percent renewable energies. Although the planned law has not yet cleared the Bundestag hurdle, tightening is already being worked on in secret. This is reported by “Bild”.
As in the Bundestag, there are also committees in the Bundesrat in which laws are drafted in detail. The committees of the departments involved are staffed according to the party affiliation of the respective state minister. In the environment department, this committee is mainly green, because eleven of the 16 state environment ministers are occupied by Green politicians.
“Bild” gives details of the planned tightening of the heating law. It mainly boils down to five points.
Five points: Green Ministers want to tighten Habeck’s heating law
So should Bans may come earlier. The government wants buildings to be carbon neutral by 2045. However, some federal states should do this earlier. Accordingly, the declaration states that in order to be able to achieve these goals, “the countries must be given the opportunity” to “enact earlier regulations on the ban on the operation of boilers with fossil fuels”.
Smaller houses no longer get exceptions. This should actually apply to small houses with “less than six residential units”. But that should also be overturned, since these houses make up the majority of all residential units.
Countries should only be allowed to tighten the heating law, but not relax it
In addition, all general regulations should only be tightened, but not relaxed.
Hydrogen should no longer be a solution. The FDP called for this openness to technology, the environmental committee wants to overturn it. The justification according to ” Bild “: “Due to the lack of hydrogen quantities and thus the lack of meaningfulness for the economic viability of such a supply as well as the lack of boiler technology for a pure hydrogen operation”, these should at best only be opened at a later date.
The “over 80 rule” should no longer be valid. This age group should be exempt from the heating hammer – but not if the environment committee has its way. He refers to the “principle of equal treatment”.
FDP announces resistance to planned heating law
The FDP had already announced massive resistance in the negotiations. There are also many critical voices from the opposition. The planned tightening should make it even more difficult for the draft law to pass the Bundestag. Robert Habeck and his State Secretary Patrick Graichen face a mammoth task.
