When it comes to formulating targets, the traffic light coalition is regularly in top form.
80 percent electricity from renewable sources, 6 million heat pumps, 15 million electric cars, 65 percent less CO2 emissions: These are just a few of the figures that should be achieved by 2030.
There is no question that Germany will not become climate-neutral without ambitious goals.
But goals should not become dogma.
However, this is exactly what is currently happening in the building sector.
Heat pumps are well suited for heating in new buildings, but Economics Minister Robert Habeck is burdening the owners of old buildings with an incalculable cost risk with the de facto heat pump obligation from 2024.
Even readjustments to the electricity price brake do not help.
It will be a long time before there is enough wind and solar energy in Germany to operate all the heat pumps, electric cars and hydrogen electrolysers reasonably economically.
But instead of taking countermeasures, the next goal is set straight away: the shutdown of the last nuclear power plants on April 15, 2023.