Gas price increase as of 1.1.2022

I’m no longer taking anything here personally :) But I do know many builders from the area who have built or are still building with gas boilers in the last two years. It’s clear that gas boilers used to be the better heating method, for example compared to oil heating. However, nowadays I find building with gas not to be contemporary.

Yes, that may be a lead-in, but it has no place here. There are plenty of threads in the forum discussing the (lack of) meaningfulness of gas heating...

Yes, that may be the case in advance, but it has nothing to do here. There are truly enough threads in the forum where the (non-)sensibility of a gas heating system is debated...

..or other nonsense, e.g. houses that consume land resources with their oversized floor area. Whatever.

Yes, that applies to some here and as a heat pump/photovoltaics advocate you don’t have to act like a smart aleck. But unfortunately, the opposite is also true: there are certainly forum members who elevate their own (wrong?) decision to the measure of all things and still claim here that heat pumps are more expensive and complicated nonsense; photovoltaics unprofitable; gas has risen much less in price over the last x decades than electricity;

And with such nonsense, gas boilers are then promoted.

I certainly do not promote it, but I admit that I have been and still am very satisfied with our gas heating. I also have nothing against a price increase if it happens moderately.*

If we had received €25,000 in subsidies in 2013, when we built, we would now also have a photovoltaic system on our roof. I’m not complaining, but I find it quite questionable whether this glorification has to take place in every thread now.

*Anyway: as of 1/1/22 we now have a new contract, and it’s where we also get our electricity. Overall, it was still cheaper without bonuses than all Check24 “offers”. With roughly €10/15 more per month now, life is good again. Anyone who looks into it now sees that 14 cents AP is completely disproportionate – we are now back at 7.7 cents (rounded).

If we had received €25,000 in subsidies in 2013 when we built, we would now also have a photovoltaic system on our roof.

Photovoltaic systems are still subsidized with more than 100%. The subsidy is called "feed-in tariff." Installed in 2013, the system would now be paid off and one would be making good money. Sorry and BTT.

probably it’s propane/butane?!?

I found it surprising that autogas (=propane) has only become about 40% more expensive here.
Compared to the sometimes cited increases of 150% for town gas, that’s practically a bargain.

Yes, that may well be. It’s just what is known as liquefied gas.

So far, our supplier, the municipal utilities of Ratzeburg, Mölln, and Oldesloe, is still keeping quiet. I guess it will happen on 1.4., when the second year is over and the price lock ends. We'll see. So far, it has been a very fair contractual relationship; it doesn't have to be the cheapest, it also has to provide good, clear quality gas, smile …. or it has to be affordable over the years. Because switching annoys me. Always this unrest in everything.

Price jumps are unpleasant for many. I can remember that during the oil crisis my parents lowered the room temperature. Today we are very much in favor of saving energy but always without loss of comfort or giving up habits. That will change for some. For many households, the cost increases are a noticeably significant factor. This will continue because a paradigm shift is underway, which allocates climate costs to the polluters instead of, as before, first ignoring them and then socializing them. I also consider the principle to be correct; now one must, conversely, socialize the hardships that this means for many people – in other words, direct support there.