Confusion has reigned ever since the traffic light coalition discovered boiler rooms in Germany as the central venue for their climate protection plans. The more rules the federal government comes up with to achieve this goal, the greater the dispute.
The amendment to the Building Energy Act (GEG), which defines future heating rules, also ended up in the coalition committee. The current GEG draft is initially based on the specification from the coalition agreement: from January 1, 2024, newly installed heating systems should be powered by 65 percent renewable energies. However, certain accompanying regulations in the draft from the Green-led Ministry of Economic Affairs are so strict that the law would have amounted to a ban on gas and oil heating.
Some of these requirements are now being cleared again. The most important questions at a glance: