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Great success: green district heating makes heating more expensive! Brilliant prospects, right?There is fantastic news for the residents of Hohenmölsen. District heating is to be converted to green energy, and that means heating will become more expensive. But anyone who thinks this affects only Hohenmölsen has certainly done the math without their heating provider. This will most likely affect just about everyone in the republic. 
On November 20, 2025, the new district heating concept was presented to the Hohenmölsen city council. Thanks to the leaders in Berlin and Brussels, beloved by many, Germany is supposed to become CO₂-neutral. It was decided that domestic lignite should no longer be used for power generation and heating. Cities and municipalities are therefore allowed—at the cost of a not inconsiderable administrative burden—to create so-called municipal heat plans in order to clarify how this decarbonization of heat generation can be achieved. The Hoffmann engineering office was commissioned to determine the status quo and to explore how this CO₂-free heat generation could succeed. Download this presentation here It was determined that solar thermal energy can cover only 20 percent of the required annual output for the heating period. Geothermal energy was also considered. The diagrams show that with intensive use of geothermal energy, the brine mean temperature would decrease noticeably. In addition, it was found that at drilling depths of more than 80 meters, leaching of the Zechstein formation would occur, leading to the formation of cavities that can often result in surface subsidence (subrosion sinkholes) or sinkholes. The conclusion is that shallow geothermal energy is not economically viable and cannot be justified from a landscape-planning perspective. By 2039, heat generation is to consist of 30 percent air-to-water heat pumps and the PtH module IKW Wählitz (PtH – Power to Heat = electricity to heat), and 70 percent natural gas. With wise foresight, the leaders in Berlin and Brussels, beloved by many, have decided that the EU should no longer import gas from Russia by November 1, 2027 at the latest—neither liquefied natural gas (LNG) nor via pipelines. The natural gas required for Hohenmölsen must therefore be shipped in by tankers from other regions of the world. To what extent this is more climate-friendly is something everyone may judge for themselves. From 2040 onward, heat generation is to consist of 20 percent natural gas, 15 percent biomass, and 65 percent air-to-water heat pumps. Heat pumps logically require electricity. How this electricity is to be generated during the months when the sun hardly shines and the wind sometimes does not blow is not explained in the concept. Especially since, according to the ideology of the leaders beloved by many, the share of electric cars is supposed to be preferably 100 percent by that time—vehicles that experience significant range losses in winter months and therefore need to be charged more often. Even so, according to the current state of affairs, the concept does not work without natural gas. Residents of Hohenmölsen may, however, rejoice frenetically at the fact that end-customer prices will rise. The magnificent energy transition is thus showing its effects. The summary states: » District heating in Hohenmölsen will likely have to begin heat planning from 2027 onward. » The potential assessment has shown that the supply of renewable or unavoidable waste heat in Hohenmölsen is limited. » Renewable heat must therefore be generated predominantly using air-to-water heat pumps. Biomass and electrical energy can supplement the heat mix. The technologies are proven and available. » The end-customer price will rise from currently about 17 to 20 cents/kWh in the course of decarbonizing district heating, excluding inflation. Looking beyond one’s own backyardThe requirement to carry out an energy transition is based on the narrative that the CO₂ caused by humans contributes exclusively to warming the atmosphere. The CO₂ share in the atmosphere is about 400 ppm (0.04 percent, or 400 CO₂ molecules within 1 million air molecules). The human share of these 400 ppm is about 3 percent (i.e., 12 ppm or 0.0012 percent CO₂ share of the air). Germany’s share of these 12 ppm is about 1.7 percent (i.e., 0.204 ppm or 0.0000204 percent CO₂ share in the atmosphere). The approximately 388 ppm of CO₂ of natural origin are, from the perspective of politics, not responsible for global warming.CO₂ concentrations of around 400 ppm were already measured in the 1850s. Accordingly, there was no actual increase. Recommended to the heart is this entertaining video on the topic and what can be elicited from artificial intelligence: With regard to the measured increase in atmospheric temperature, there is growing criticism. The effects of urban heat islands and the differences in measurements between forest and field are hardly taken into account. As urban development increasingly encroaches on measuring stations, these stations inevitably record higher temperatures at those measurement points. It is also well known that historically, temperature rose first and only afterward did CO₂ increase. However, temperatures then fell again, followed by a decline in the trace gas CO₂. When will insight reach regional politics?The question that always arises with such ideologically driven projects is when regional politics will also take an interest in the findings of critics and exert influence on state, federal, and EU policy. Because even if projects like the conversion of district heating in Hohenmölsen are largely financed by subsidies, and regional politicians like to boast about how successfully they have managed to secure these funds, it is certainly also clear to these regional politicians that subsidies are tax money that ultimately must always be paid by citizens.Every cent that has to be spent on heating costs is missing from citizens elsewhere. Perhaps one or another regional politician will also watch this interview. Dieter Böhme concludes that Germany does not have enough land area to generate the necessary energy. Autarky or CO₂ neutrality is therefore not achievable. Another effect of the energy transition is creating major problems in the East German chemical industry. A loss of 63,000 jobs is being warned about, which also affects our region. Regional politics therefore faces the decision of whether to continue supporting all of this and merely see itself, without questioning anything, as an extended arm of federal and EU policy, or whether it sees its task as safeguarding and improving the living and working conditions of people on the ground. After all, regional politicians are directly elected by the people on site. One can certainly assume that if federal and EU policy is implemented by regional politics without objection and without regard for losses, citizens will express their displeasure at the latest in the next elections. Anyone who wants to be re-elected even at the regional level will inevitably have to look far beyond their own backyard and also think through what critics have to say. Author: AI-Translation - Michael Thurm | |
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