Most people in Germany are convinced that there is no getting around the energy transition.
But only a minority of households in this country are already using alternative technologies, as a survey by the KfW development bank published on Tuesday showed.
In Hesse, such technologies are therefore less widespread than the national average. In Hesse, for example, according to the survey, around 8 percent of households use solar energy for water heating (solar thermal energy) - compared with 9.4 percent nationwide. In the case of photovoltaic systems, households in Hessen are around 7 percent below the overall German average (8.5 percent), as is the case for heat pumps with 8 percent (national average: 8.7 percent). Around 2.7 percent of the households surveyed drive an electric car in Hesse and 3.4 percent across Germany are reported to be driving an electric car.
Every fourth household in Hesse (26 percent) stated that they had given more thought to energy efficiency in the past year. That is slightly more than the overall German average (22 percent). "In the coming years, therefore, households in Hesse could see a noticeable increase in the energy transition," KfW concluded.