BMWK wants mandatory heat planning

In the future, municipalities are to compulsorily develop heat planning. A corresponding legal change was announced by the head of department Christian Maaß from the Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWK) on Wednesday at the Berlin Energy Days. In the coalition agreement, the traffic light coalition had agreed only to use itself for a surface covering local heat planning. For municipalities of a certain size, heat plans are already provided for by a state law in Baden-Württemberg. This instrument is primarily used to plan the expansion of district heating networks or the conversion of existing networks to operation with renewable energies.