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Over 33 Percent Price Increase for District Heating in Hohenmölsen in the Coming Years – the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Keeps Quiet About ItThere is certainly some unease regarding the reporting of the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung about the plans for “Green District Heating” in Hohenmölsen. 
From that perspective, the information published in the MZ article on 25.03.2026 about the revised plans for the “Green District Heating” concept is correct. The reasons were also mentioned. MIBRAG will not build a hydrogen electrolyzer because producing hydrogen from solar and wind power is not economically viable. The previous idea of using the waste heat from the electrolyzer for the district heating of the city of Hohenmölsen was therefore off the table. The current concept envisions the construction of a large heat pump and a combined heat and power plant. The previously estimated costs have risen from 50 million euros to nearly 69 million euros. The vast majority of this will be financed through subsidies. So far, this may not worry the residents of Hohenmölsen. The allocation of subsidies is common practice in order to make such projects possible at all. The city of Hohenmölsen would certainly not be able to achieve this on its own. However, what is missing from the article in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung is what will directly affect the residents of Hohenmölsen: a significant increase in heating costs once the power plants are completed, which is expected to be the case in five years at the latest, that is, by 2031. While price increases in recent years have already been substantial – currently around 15 cents per kilowatt hour – the concept already projected prices of over 20 cents. Since such concepts are usually designed very optimistically, it can probably be assumed that it will not remain at 20 cents. How would the residents of Hohenmölsen react if they read that their heating bills will increase by a good 30 percent in just a few years? Not merely within the scope of normal inflation, as Mayor Haugk explained (see video), but considerably more. Well, we do not know, because the residents of Hohenmölsen who only receive the MZ do not know it. Even Mayor Andy Haugk himself did not know this rather relevant figure on 23.03.2026. “One could look it up,” he said. To do so, one simply has to click through the City of Hohenmölsen council information system, check when city council meetings took place, and see which documents were added there in order to find the file Presentation District Heating HHM-kompr.. In other words, everything is very citizen-unfriendly and non-transparent. Haugk apparently is only concerned that district heating has a comparable price level to other forms of heating. According to him, this could be achieved – at over 20 cents per kilowatt hour. That is how expensive the other options for heating one’s home will become as well. Haugk said it will definitely become more expensive. Yet that was also not mentioned in the MZ article. For the mayor, the subsidy millions apparently seem to be more important than what citizens will ultimately have to pay each month for the energy transition through their heating bills. I remember the question from the state parliament member Sebastian Striegel (Greens) from 2021, when he asked the then re-elected Minister-President Reiner Haseloff (CDU) how his coalition intended to ensure that people would benefit from the energy transition. I do not know how others feel about it. But when it is always said that renewable energy will make everything cheaper, the forecast for “Green District Heating” shows the exact opposite. So far, I cannot see people benefiting from renewable energy. But why is this not mentioned in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung? Author: AI-Translation - Michael Thurm | |
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