Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

I don’t want to start a political discussion, but when it comes to funding, the current government is like a weather vane. It’s not the first time that an entire mountain has been moved overnight. And I’m not saying that in a positive sense. Maybe there’s also some frustration on our side, since the possibility of an EE40 subsidy was basically taken away from us overnight back in January.

They also want to tighten the belt soon for electric cars. Somehow, the whole scrapping of various subsidies conveys a government austerity course, if it weren’t for the distribution of tax money around the world – oops, I didn’t want to start a political discussion, just share my subjective, probably a bit irritated opinion on the overall situation.

Since the need is apparently so great among consumers to take action with renovations, subsidies aren’t necessary, that’s probably the government’s line of thought behind it.

Those who cannot afford the current additional cost of around 30-40,000 EUR for geothermal heat pump, deep drilling, and photovoltaics take gas heating...

Or even some who calculate the payback period of the 20k extra cost after subsidies. In the long term, gas will have to be calculated at the tariff for LNG from Qatar, after temporary price spikes for two to three winters. Due to gas power generation, the nuclear phase-out, and renewable energies, electricity prices divided by the old building efficiency factor of 3 will hardly be cheaper than gas in the long run, unless punitive taxes are significantly increased.

Putin is right when he wonders what the Germans actually want to heat with.

Coal, wood, oil, and gas are not supposed to come from Russia anymore in 2023. Uranium for the fuel rods, of course, not anymore either.
Heat pumps are currently just as unavailable as photovoltaic technology. The cooling towers of the nuclear power plants have already been torn down.

Lawrow offered the EU again today a reliable and affordable supply of gas via Northstream II.

So the whole problem could turn around for the better within a few hours. We do not have a gas or electricity problem but a government problem.

But that will probably change very quickly with enormously rising energy prices.

That is doubly wrong. On the one hand, there are many "normal people" outside the overheated metropolitan areas who own single-family homes. Especially among those who built them 20 or 30 years ago. And on the other hand, those who are not homeowners, i.e., tenants, are even more dependent on subsidies. No landlord will voluntarily replace the gas boiler with a heat pump and carry out the necessary energy renovation on the side if his modernization surcharge is capped at €2 or €3 and he is subsequently not allowed to raise the rent for a long time. The tenant pays the additional costs anyway...

But the truth is also that people who built a single-family home 20 or 30 years ago are now living in a place that requires 150, 200, 250 kWh/m²/a for heating per year. That quickly amounts to 20, 25, or even 30,000 kWh/a... 20,000 kWh cost around €4,000-5,000 at the end of the 2022/23 heating season.

The subsidy for energy renovation therefore also means that these people are supported financially in their savings, while tenants get the cold shoulder. Honestly, I don’t quite understand that because the decision to build a house is an individual one. And the decision not to carry out any energy renovation on the house for 20, 30, 40 years is also an individual one. The general public should not seriously have to pay for that.

Or even some who calculate the payback period of the 20k additional cost after subsidies. In the long term, gas will have to be calculated at the tariff for LNG from Qatar, after temporary price excesses for two to three winters. Due to gas power generation, nuclear phase-out, and renewable energies, electricity prices divided by the old building efficiency factor of 3 will hardly be cheaper than gas in the long term, unless punitive taxes are significantly increased.

Do you already know the tariff from Qatar when all Western countries are getting their gas from there? Honestly, I do not believe that we will ever see gas prices below 15 cents/kWh again...

Putin is right when he wonders what the Germans actually want to heat with. Coal, wood, oil, and gas are supposedly no longer coming from Russia in 2023. Uranium for the fuel rods, of course, also no longer. Heat pumps are currently just as unavailable as photovoltaic technology. The cooling towers of the nuclear power plants have already been demolished. Lavrov has once again offered the EU a reliable and reasonably priced supply of gas via Nord Stream II today. So the whole problem could turn for the better within a few hours. We do not have a gas or electricity problem but a government problem. But that will probably change very quickly with enormously rising energy prices.

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