Setback for Habeck: Run on oil and gas heating systems - development of the heat pump is disappointing. The Building Energy Act has caused unrest in recent months like no other energy law.

The goal of the traffic light coalition, according to which 500,000 heat pumps are to be installed in Germany from 2024, is unlikely to be achieved so quickly. “We see the uncertainty from the heating law,” said managing director of the Federal Heat Pump Association (BWP) Martin Sabel.