Well, up to 1.6 cents more doesn't make me nervous, that would be 6.5 instead of 5 cents.
As I said, it is 35% additional costs, not "6.5 instead of 5 cents."
Sure, in new buildings that's not a huge amount of money, from 60€ gas then becomes 80€ per month.
But for Grandma Hilde in an old building, 150€ then becomes 200€.
The H4 recipient in a cheap old building forwards that to the office, by the way.
that's ridiculous compared to the increase in electricity consumption! The heat pumps will still cost us a lot of money in operation thanks to this incompetent government. And the Greens will make everything even more expensive, they and their voters have the financial means to afford almost everything themselves . Oh dear, I'm just complaining...
Maybe some things aren't fast enough. After all, you also want to be re-elected.
But you can't say that nothing is happening. Heat pump technology has been heavily subsidized for years, either directly through BAFA or indirectly through KFW programs, where from KFW 55 onwards, there is basically no way around the heat pump. The primary energy factor was reduced to favor heat pumps over gas, etc.
You can't just double all prices overnight or ban them as scrap metal.
I find a 35% price increase for gas over 6 years already comparatively significant. The Renewable Energy Act surcharge is supposed to be reduced in return, currently 6 cents or 20% of electricity costs.
That shifts the balance between heat pumps and gas even more clearly towards heat pumps.
So 60€ gas becomes 80€ gas and 50€ electricity becomes 40€ electricity per month.
What before still felt close together, and could be dismissed with "oh only 10€," then clearly means: gas costs twice as much in consumption.
That might not be noticeable today, but definitely in 6-7 years.
If it is implemented that way.