District heating or gas?

Here you are currently saving surprisingly more money

Created: 08/18/2022, 06:28

By: Jasmine Farah

Due to the increase in energy prices, anyone who builds a house is concerned about how they can heat inexpensively in the future.

District heating or gas?

Inflation is a problem for many people in this country.

Home builders are right to be concerned: After all, the key interest rate and energy prices are rising enormously.

Some are already looking at the winter with horror and are afraid of the upcoming costs.

Anyone who builds a house is therefore currently asking themselves how they should heat in the future.

Where can I still save the most money: with district heating or even gas?

In principle, both types of heating have their advantages and disadvantages.

District heating or gas?

This is where you currently save more money

With district heating, buildings and houses are heated via pipelines from energy sources such as power plants and supplied with hot water.

With gas, however, the situation is different.

With this heating method, the heat is generated directly in your own four walls.

However, what you choose for the house depends not only on the costs, but also on the local conditions or what you prefer.

District heating or gas in the new house?

Often a difficult decision for consumers.

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The interesting thing is that although gas is currently becoming more expensive, the costs are still lower than those of district heating.

Overall, they are on average two euros cheaper per square meter of building.

But in contrast to district heating, there are some acquisition costs, including for modern combustion systems and gas tanks if there is no direct gas connection.

Another plus for gas, however, is that if one provider becomes too expensive, one can smoothly and quickly switch to another.

Nevertheless, there will be no getting around the gas levy that the federal government decided in July 2022.

Accordingly, it should be 2.4 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), for a single-family house with an annual consumption of 20,000 kilowatt hours, according to the

, this means an increase of almost 500 euros a year.

But Economics Minister Robert Habeck (52, The Greens) has already announced "more targeted relief for citizens".

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District heating or gas: better compare offers beforehand

In addition, those who use district heating do not have the option of changing providers, as there are fewer of them.

The local municipal utilities usually supply you via their heating network, which is why you are often very dependent.

If there are price increases, you usually have to accept them approvingly.

In many cases, a hot water boiler or a flow heater is also required.

This means that the district heating provider does not provide hot water, but has to heat it up in your own four walls using another device.

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Therefore, before you decide on a heating system, it is advisable to compare all providers on the market and their offers with each other.

In the end, you choose the variant that works best for your home and is still inexpensive.