From Hildburg Bruns
Their installation will be banned from 2026 – but 300,000 Berlin households are still heating with oil. Things don’t run smoothly for them because, unlike gas and electricity, there is no price brake in sight due to politics!
“The prices for heating oil, which is expensive anyway, have almost doubled in recent months. Here, too, relief is urgently needed, ”demands the CDU MP Stefanie Bung (43).
The oil price horror is worse than the gas price explosion: According to the Federal Statistical Office, the costs in September had risen by 108.4 percent compared to the previous year – from around 74 cents to 1.60 euros per liter.
This also affects a number of cultural institutions, as the request from the CDU culture expert to the Senate shows. The buildings on Peacock Island, the Belvedere in Charlottenburg, Grunewald Palace and Glienicke Palace, for example, are heated with oil. Most theaters and opera houses, on the other hand, depend on district heating.
And the capital city apartments? In the municipal companies alone, 2,870 are affected at Gewobag, 1,269 at Degewo, and 671 at Gesobau.
After the Prime Minister’s meeting with the Federal Chancellor, Franziska Giffey (44, SPD) announced that oil and pellets would still be discussed.
Otherwise there is a risk of severe unequal treatment. According to a study by the Federal Association of Energy and Water Management, 60,000 buildings and 300,000 apartments in Berlin are heated with oil (corresponds to 16.8 percent).
On average, these central heating systems are already 24.8 years old, and 17.7 years in one- and two-family houses. An exchange for systems using renewable energies is heavily subsidised.