Press release No. N056 of 8 September 2022
- Proportion down by 9 percentage points year on year
WIESBADEN – Gas for heating is becoming less important when new residential buildings are planned in Germany. 16.2% of the approximately 60,200 residential buildings approved in the first six months of 2022 will be heated primarily with gas, according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). In the first half of 2021, gas heating was planned for roughly one fourth (25.5%) of the 68,000 residential buildings approved. In the first half of 2019, it was to be installed in 39.9% of the 58,000 approved residential buildings. The number of such buildings using gas as primary energy source thus more than halved in the first six months of 2022 from the first half of 2019. The shift away from gas is continuing a trend seen for a longer period of time. To date, the war in Ukraine and the ensuing gas shortage have not had a clear impact on the development.
