2023-05-05 06:54:33
Vonovia cannot put heat pumps into operation – FDP and CDU are demanding consequences
A vehicle from the Vonovia housing company, here in front of a block of flats in Bonn
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In January 2022, Germany’s largest real estate group, Vonovia, launched a special heat pump program. But dozens of devices that have already been installed are still not connected. It is said that there is not enough electricity available.
DIn many cases, Germany’s largest real estate group, Vonovia, cannot commission heat pumps that have already been installed because they have not yet been connected. One reason is that there is not enough electricity available due to the lack of grid expansion, said Vonovia CEO Rolf Buch on Thursday. Around 70 installed devices are not yet connected, said a company spokeswoman. He did not explain in which cities the problems exist.
They smell launched a special heat pump program in January 2022. It provides for the installation of 6000 heat pumps within five years. In a first step, a total of 115 heat pumps were installed in September, which are to heat 108 buildings with 671 apartments in the future. In most cases, Vonovia also wants to use self-generated electricity from photovoltaic systems.
Buch confirmed that by 2045, photovoltaic systems should be installed on almost all 30,000 suitable roofs of the building stock. At the end of 2022, the company had installed 533 systems. As an interim goal by 2030, the real estate giant wants to provide 17,000 roofs with photovoltaic systems. “Climate neutrality by 2045 remains an important goal,” stressed Buch.
“Network must tolerate connection of the heat pumps”
Politicians are calling for consequences after the reports on Vonovia. “Heat pumps can be a very efficient form of heating, especially in new buildings, but their expansion in Germany is already being limited by the gradual expansion of the distribution network,” said the energy policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, Michael Kruse, to the “RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland”. “This will increase drastically in the future, because every additional heat pump increases the peak demand in winter,” Kruse continues. “Before the Federal Minister of Economics decrees heat pumps for people, the network must be able to tolerate their connection,” demanded Kruse.
The opposition is also calling for consequences. “The energy turnaround in the building sector is obviously not only being organized by the traffic light with a crowbar, but also bypassing reality,” said Jan-Marco Luczak, construction policy spokesman for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, to the “RND”. There is not only a lack of heat pumps and skilled workers, but also the capacities of the power lines are too low. “But a legal plan can never replace reality,” said the CDU politician. “This only jeopardizes the acceptance of the heat transition,” criticized Luczak and called on the traffic lights to give in. “The specifications of the Building Energy Act must therefore be reduced to a reasonable, i.e. feasible, level.”
Vonovia owns almost 550,000 apartments in Germany, Sweden and Austria. In addition, there are almost 70,000 managed apartments.
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