This is what experts say
Is the heating law overturned?
Updated on January 15th, 2025Reading time: 2 min.
Some citizens and politicians want to abolish or mitigate the building energy network (opposite). Is that possible at all?
Simply abolish the building energy network? Or weaken it? Some consumers want that. And politicians also promise in their election campaign with these or similar promises. But is it so easy to withdraw the heating law?
No, according to experts, this is not possible. For example, Helmut Bramann, General Manager of the Central Association of Sanitary, Heating, Climate (ZVSHK): “The building energy network – in short – it actually means that it is not possible to abolish. 2026 will be revised by a future federal government to include further European guidelines. “
Bramann also notes that most politicians who speak of the heating law mean mostly only § 71 in the opposite. The requirements for a heating system are set there. For example, that “at least 65 percent of the heat provided with the system with renewable energies […] the expert admits that this paragraph, the expert admits, also sees his association needs – for example in terms of openness to technology. One should not focus so much on heat pumps and district heating pumps, he advises. To start heating modernization now. “
In addition, the EU requirement must also be observed. In March 2024, the EU Parliament revised the “Directive over the entire energy efficiency of buildings” (EU building efficiency directive). In this respect, it was also decided that the “exit from fuel fuels operated by fuels was only an” indicative goal “by 2040.
However, the member states still have to reach the overall goal of a climate -neutral building stock by 2050. So it is only a matter of time when the exit with fossil fuels is carried out by heating boilers or whether in small or rather big steps.
