One of the largest German rental companies is targeting 17-degree Celsius apartments and turning off the heating at night. Another service provider wants to limit the use of hot water, but similar measures are being considered elsewhere, according to an article by the international news agency V4NA.
A new chapter of the Western European gas crisis has been opened by the German real estate company Vonovia, which, among other things, also deals with renting out apartments. Summer is still in full swing, but the company has already announced that from autumn everyone will be forced to dress warmly in their homes. In the more than three hundred thousand apartments owned by Vonovia, the heating is turned off between 11 pm and 6 am. According to the company, the aim of the measure is to reduce gas consumption and reduce heating bills.
According to the company, this move can save about eight percent - although people will sleep in sweaters or jackets in their homes.
Due to high energy prices, the housing provider Deutsche Wohnen is also considering possible savings measures.
Basically, we are taking the current situation very seriously and are investigating various options to save natural gas or optimize the operation of our systems - the service provider projected the ominous austerity measures, while noting as good news that there are no plans to restrict hot water.
However, there is a service provider that sees this as the solution to the skyrocketing energy prices. In the future, the Dippoldiswalde housing association in Berlin will allow the use of heating only periodically in about 260 of its six hundred apartments, which also includes the hot water service. The reason for this was the rise in energy prices. According to Falk Kühn-Meisegeier, managing director of Dippoldiswalde
it is not about annoying the tenants, but about adapting to the situation, because it is possible that the housing cooperative will become insolvent in the future. Life is pretty expensive anyway. Hot water at night is a luxury we can no longer afford
added the head of the housing association.
This is not the first measure with which they are trying to deal with the expected gas crisis in Europe. As V4NA first reported earlier, the European Union prepared plans to push people into an energy dictatorship. According to this, it would not be possible to heat the apartments warmer than 18 degrees in winter.
In order for Brussels to convince people that this is a vital step, they have also deployed various studies, with which they are already trying to sensitize people.
According to the Energy Saving Trust, 18 degrees Celsius is the ideal room temperature in winter.
The World Health Organization (WHO) shares the new economizing trend and believes that 18 degrees is also appropriate and comfortable in the apartment, including in the bedroom. The French Environmental Protection and Energy Management Agency has made the ideal temperature even lower: it is enough to heat the bedroom to 17 degrees.
And according to the recommendation of an energy efficiency blog, a sustainable way to save money is if people heat the house one hour less per day than before. According to another such suggestion, the pots used for cooking should be changed to smaller ones - "the smaller the pot, the less waste."
Source and full article: Magyar Nemzet
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