Overview
- The CDU/SPD coalition’s outline would scrap the 65% renewables rule for new heating, allow new oil and gas boilers, and start a mandatory green‑fuel blend at 10% in 2029 with increases later, but the measures remain drafts.
- Local utilities report biomethane blending into gas is technically workable, while hydrogen blending is harder, yet volumes and prices for green gases remain uncertain for households.
- Researchers cite current biomethane at roughly 1.4% of German gas use with a possible doubling to tripling by 2030 to about 2–3%, noting strong competition from industry and limited economics without policy support.
- Heating trades and energy advisers expect greater planning complexity and warn of higher operating and network costs, while tenant advocates say landlords’ choices could leave renters paying for pricier green‑fuel blends.
- A leaked EEG draft would end fixed feed‑in payments for small rooftop PV systems up to 25 kW and push direct marketing and self‑consumption, prompting sector criticism and conflict‑of‑interest allegations against Economy Minister Katherina Reiche; the ministry’s proposals are not yet final.