Overview
- Environment Minister Carsten Schneider said federal support for climate-friendly heating replacements will continue through a socially tiered €12 billion program with grants of up to 70% for low-income households.
- Schneider stated the Building Energy Act will largely remain in place with a targeted revision, arguing that emissions pricing will make fossil heating costlier while clean technologies become cheaper.
- Markus Söder countered that the heating law will be scrapped as promised in the coalition agreement and labeled current heat-pump funding a “complete oversubsidy” that should be sharply reduced.
- Reporting on the coalition pact indicates plans to reform rather than eliminate the framework outright by keeping renovation and heating support while making rules more technology-neutral, flexible, and simpler.
- Schneider cited rising heat-pump adoption, saying recent installations outpaced gas systems, as coalition talks are set to take up the dispute in the coming days.