Gas heating ban from 2025 overturned

A complete ban on gas heating from 2024 is no longer planned. Instead, homeowners will also be able to install gas heat pump hybrid units or other fuel-based central heating systems in the future. In addition, there will be hardship regulations and longer deadlines for replacement. This is according to a concept paper from the federal government.

The previously favored obligation for homeowners will also be relaxed; in the future, both in new buildings and existing ones, "möglichst" only heating systems that are powered at least 65 percent by renewable energies are to be installed. The introduction was planned for 2025 in the coalition agreement, but this is now to be brought forward by one year to 2024.

The government then wants to offer homeowners six options to achieve the 65-percent quota: heat pumps, biomass, green gas, hybrid units, direct electric heating, or connection to the district heating network.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any real advantage. If you don't want a primary heat pump, you have to put the heat pump in front of the gas heating. However, you still have a heat pump and the installation becomes more complex.

No, that's just how it is. Everything except pure heat pump heating is nonsense. But people absolutely want to keep the option to keep beating dead horses for insane amounts of money, and the FDP is doing everything to ensure that this freedom remains! ;-)

And one should also not forget that the last 35% must be reduced to 0% within 10 years. (But they don't tell people that yet, it would confuse them and ultimately lead to more sensible decisions.)

And what exactly is "green gas"? Where can I buy it? Does it flow through its own pipelines? The same ones that also carry the yellow electricity?

I mean, green gas is referred to as such when it is produced using electricity generated from renewable sources. So "green" hydrogen. I don't know if there is also synthetic natural gas (theoretically certainly, but whether it is industrially scalable - no idea. Some even have doubts about hydrogen in that regard).

Ah, so nothing that you could currently buy...