According to the draft law passed by the Federal Cabinet, from 2024 every newly installed heating system should be operated with 65 percent renewable energy. The CDU holds against it.
The CDU wants to prevent the plans of the traffic light government to say goodbye to oil and gas heating in the long term with a Germany-wide mobilization campaign under the motto “Fair heating instead of burning”. “We need a heat transition without social indifference. We want to heat fairly instead of being burned,” said CDU General Secretary Mario Czaja on Thursday when the campaign was presented in Berlin. “We need climate protection without a cost shock,” he added. Czaja and Deputy Secretary General Christina Stumpp called on citizens to register on a website set up specifically for the campaign.
On the CDU campaign page it says: “Now set an example against the heating hammer of the traffic lights.” People are called upon to “send a signal against the federal government’s unfair heating law” with their “vote”. Freedom of choice for heating and more financial support are required. According to Czaja, the campaign is closely coordinated with the sister party CSU. The CSU will present its part of the campaign next Monday. CDU and CSU also demonstrated unity with this, emphasized Czaja.
Czaja emphasized that the Union is sticking to the planned building energy law from the department of Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens), but is constructive on the matter. “We say yes to climate protection and we also say yes to the conversion of our economy and our houses.” But this must take place “without paternalism, without punishment and without specifying the technology”. Stumpp criticized that many people had “an existential fear of what the federal government is threatening them with. They don’t know how to pay for this heating hammer.” The CDU wants to give these people a voice with their campaign.
According to the draft law passed by the Federal Cabinet, from 2024 every newly installed heating system should be operated with 65 percent renewable energy. This is intended to herald the departure from gas and oil heating systems. There is no immediate obligation to replace heating systems in existing buildings. If a device breaks down and can no longer be repaired, there are transitional periods. Boilers should only be able to run on fossil fuels by the end of 2044. The parliamentary deliberations are just beginning. The amendments to the law should be passed before the summer break.
Source: Stern
