How does Robert Habeck actually heat privately?

BERLIN/FLENSBURG. At the urging of Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens), the federal cabinet decided yesterday to ban oil and gas heating. The replacement obligation begins in eight months. Reason: The Germans should no longer heat with fossil fuels because of climate protection. Habeck does that, but still doesn’t have to buy a new heater or invest a cent.

While millions of households now have to convert their heating systems and houses to heat pumps and underfloor heating at enormous expense, Robert Habeck’s private apartment in Flensburg in Schleswig-Holstein is not affected by the replacement obligation. This was announced by his ministry.

Habeck only heats with 1.7 percent renewable energy

Because it is heated by Stadtwerke Flensburg with district heating. So: no oil, no gas. But the energy mix that keeps the Economics Minister warm at home is anything but climate-friendly. According to information from the Stadtwerke on their own website, the share of renewable energies in district heating in Flensburg is just 1.72 percent.

This means: 98.3 percent of the heat that the Green Economics Minister uses to make himself “mugly” in his own four walls (original quote from Stadtwerke Flensburg) comes from fossil fuels. Last year, the proportion of hard coal for the district heating mix in the northern German city was 71 percent. Natural gas accounted for another 23 percent. His apartment gets warm without oil and gas heating. However, the CO2 emissions for this are very high. (fh)