Press release No. N 007 of 16 February 2022
- Share of renewable energies rising from 57% to 66% (January to November 2021 compared with the same period a year earlier)
- Declining importance of gas heating: share down from 33% to 24%
- Household energy consumption for heating clearly up within ten years
WIESBADEN – Nowadays builders in Germany much more often opt for renewable energies as the main energy source when planning new residential buildings. Two thirds (65.5%) of the 118,000 residential buildings for which building permits were issued between January and November 2021 are to be heated with renewable energy. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the relevant share was 57.0% of the total of 113,600 residential buildings approved in the same period of the previous year. Even more often renewable energy sources are used to produce hot water. This was the case in 68.9% of the dwellings approved between January and November 2021. In the same period a year earlier, approved dwellings in which hot water was to be primarily produced from renewable energy accounted for 62.1%. The main focus has been on using environmental thermal energy and geothermal energy (heat pumps) in both cases, while solar thermal energy and biomass are to be used, too.
