Buyers in Germany are rushing to purchase heat pumps before a potential conservative government takes office and eliminates subsidies for renewable heating systems.
Sales of heat pumps have risen sharply in Germany in recent weeks because buyers fear an incoming conservative government will scrap generous grants for replacing gas-fired boilers with heating systems that run on renewable energy . Thermondo, Germany ’s largest heat pump installer, said the company’s sales of the devices had “increased by a factor of 2.5-3 in the past few weeks compared to the end of October”. It added: “In the last week of November we had a record number of new orders.
” Thermondo’s rival Enpal is experiencing a similar uptick. “We are constantly having to adjust our installation capacities to demand, which is continuing to increase,” said the company. The centre-right CDU/CSU bloc, which polls suggest is on course to win February’s snap election, has said it wants to abolish a German law stipulating that heating systems installed in new buildings must be at least 65 per cent powered by renewable energy. The controversial measure, pushed through by Green economy minister and deputy chancellor Robert Habeck, has long been a bugbear of the right. When it was first proposed last year, conservative media warned that ordinary homeowners would be forced to rip out their gas boilers — despite Habeck’s repeated assurances to the contrary. In its manifesto, the CDU/CSU says it wants to stop “governments deciding what kind of boilers people put in their cellars . . . We will promote low-emission heating solutions, without giving preference to any particular technology”. The existing law provides generous subsidies that can cover up to 70 per cent of the procurement and installation costs of a new heat pump. Many of the law’s supporters fear that this subsidy will be at risk if the CDU/CSU wins February’s election. Such concerns were intensified by Jens Spahn, a senior CDU MP, who told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in November that the CDU/CSU would “bring Habeck’s subsidy programme to an end”
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