How expensive is it to heat a house with gas?

High gas consumption The refurbishment rate for building envelopes has stagnated at less than one percent for years. (Foto: IMAGO/Future Image) Düsseldorf Heating with gas is becoming expensive – the Research Institute for Thermal Insulation Munich (FIW) has now determined exactly how expensive in a study. Accordingly, residents of low-energy, uninsulated houses have to adjust to … Read more

Russia is openly threatening to stop Nord Stream 1 deliveries

Nord-Stream-Pipeline Russia is the largest oil supplier in Europe. (Photo: AFP) Moscow After the start of the war against Ukraine, Russia openly threatened to stop gas deliveries through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline in the Baltic Sea for the first time. “We have every right to make a ‘mirror-fair’ decision and to issue an embargo … Read more

Also for SPD leadership “all options on the table”

Landfall for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline Klingbeil called for an end to the Nord Stream 2 controversy. (Photo: imago images/Eibner) Berlin The SPD leadership has backed Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s position that all possible sanctions are on the table in the event of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Party chairman Lars Klingbeil made it clear … Read more

Consumer protection minister promises help with electricity prices

Steffi Lemke The federal government will further reduce the charges on the electricity price, said the consumer protection minister. (Foto: Getty Images) Berlin Consumer Protection Minister Steffi Lemke has criticized the termination of contracts by some low-cost providers of electricity and gas as “partly completely unlawful”. “If individual electricity providers now charge more than 70 or … Read more