Which is cheaper, heating with a heat pump or heating with gas?

Why heating with electricity makes sense apart from the alleged climate protection aspect

(2 votes)
Loading...

Similar Posts

Subscribe
Notify of
62 Answers
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
PredatorWorks
2 months ago

Heating with gas is cheaper and particularly favorable in winter, because the efficiency of the heat pump in winter drops to 1:2.

Gas costs 12.5 cents/kWh and electricity 36 cents/kWh, you already need an efficiency of 1:3 so that it costs the same amount. In autumn and mild winter you will come to the same heating costs.

The installation and maintenance of the gas heating costs much more. For me, the heat pump is worth more than the gas heating.

If you have a lot of PV on the roof, it is possible to cover a part of its heating costs in winter.

Gnurfy
2 months ago

With me, my landlord determines the basic type of heating.

In summer, however, with my small PV system + pool micropump I can hit three flaps with a fly.

– Almost free

– Hot water in the tub

– Cold air and room dehumidification in another room

norbertk62
2 months ago

Depends on your argument: cheaper or more sensible!!

From a KW power you get exactly 1 KW of heat – no more. There we would be in the argumentation of heating fans, heat waves etc – depending on the use and costing this can count. Installation costs are minimal. Maintenance costs practically equal to zero.

Heat pump – you get more KW out than you use KW. but you have to make or change installations that drive the price (always long-term). There are also maintenance costs – I don’t know right now. A tenant gets the one that’s just flipped, but a homeowner has to pay for himself.

Gas: similar, but you usually don’t need to change the installation. means: more unambiguous (long-term) price advantage, but maintenance costs and, in addition, spiders of politics.

If you look at the situation (political, economic) critically, you can see:

  • Gas = problem – was expensive. I don’t know that right now
  • Electricity: has been expensive – AKW are switched off and it must be imported. My last number is about 30% import last year. That makes him expensive

Nevertheless, if you have possibilities to keep the electricity price under control by PV or anything else, it’s okay. How to use it (WP or IR) – other construction site.

Gas / oil is not the future. However, permanent electricity imports are not.

What’s up? You always have to count for about 20 years. Not only at the moment, otherwise the investment and maintenance costs fall under the table.

Right now: first look at what the next government is doing.

quelle stromdaten.info from 28.12.2024

Babelfish
2 months ago
Reply to  norbertk62

Where did you get your wrong number to the electricity imports?

Crack
2 months ago

If you look at the higher installation costs for a heat pump, the heat pump is the better choice. Gas and oil will definitely become more expensive, the price of electricity should remain stable and fall in the long term.

Heating with a heat pump already costs about 30-40% less than comparison with gas.

Babelfish
2 months ago

So right ahead, a heat pump does not heat with electricity. It heats via heat exchange and temperature difference. The current is required for operation of the WP but not directly for heating.

The pure heating is significantly cheaper with heat pump in almost all cases. In comparison, much less electricity is required than oil or gas.

In addition, however, there are also the purchase costs, which are usually higher than in gas or oil heating. If necessary, heating elements must also be exchanged. Here you can’t call a flat-rate number because this is different in every building.

Kleidchen2
2 months ago
Reply to  Babelfish

Right. The promotion drastically reduces the purchase price to virtually equal.

docbizz
2 months ago

Heating with heat pump is cheaper.

Current current price approx. 30 ct/kWh

Current gas price approx. 10 ct/kWh

Ratio about 1:3, but heat pumps operate in the annual average at about 1:4, i.e. with 1 kWh of electricity, 4 kWh of heat are produced. In addition, the CO2 price shares in gas, i.e. gas becomes more expensive, but the electricity from wind power and PV tends to be cheaper.

Apollo382
2 months ago

Heating with gas – unambiguous. On the one hand, the purchase of a gas heater is significantly cheaper and on the other hand I get a kW/h gas for 8.4 cent. Electricity always costs over 32 cents per kW/h. Only at an efficiency of four, which only create the latest equipment, are they at the same cost. Only then must the house be designed for heat pump (low flow temperatures, underfloor heating, large heating surfaces).

However, as soon as I have my own solar system and get my electricity for free, the ratio changes.

The stupid thing is, I need the heater when it’s cold outside. So in winter. Since the heat pump has a poorer efficiency and solar energy (PV) is also not available.

So gas heating is cheaper than heat pump.

Kleidchen2
2 months ago
Reply to  Apollo382

There are mistakes in your argument.

You forget the efficiency of your gas heating. And the improvement of insulation etc. helps both types of heating and you can not only load the heat pump.

You can sell the electricity and buy it in winter.

Apollo382
2 months ago
Reply to  Kleidchen2

Don’t let you laugh! I wanted a gas heater in my NEW house! What did I have to do to get it approved? Double thick walls! Triple glazed panes, double insulation on the roof. I had to make 36.5 cm thick walls. In addition with heat insulation plaster. On top of the roof also a 200 layer of insulation. The neighbors who heat with a heat pump needed only 25 cm walls. Why? Because I’m using CO2. Really! Because I don’t take “green” energy for heating! Really! That was the reason. But okay, now I’ve got a very isolated house and I’ve got a gas!

schleudermaxe
2 months ago
Reply to  Kleidchen2

Understand, heat pump is not to be used when insulation is missing.

It’s like most of them.

Kleidchen2
2 months ago

Well, you can do that for a while.

Apollo382
2 months ago

Maybe now. Five years ago, when I planned it, it was different. Nevertheless, I have just completed a gas contract for 5.4 cent/kW/h. For another year.

My solar system on the garage produces about 9 MW/year. This is convenient for the house and the e-car. To heat it is too little, especially because I need the energy in winter. But I prefer to sell the superfluous energy for 8.3 cent per kW/h and buy gas for now 5.4 cent if necessary.

Kleidchen2
2 months ago

You’ll get the pre-running temperature well with a WP.

Nothing has to be changed. Like at -15° C, you have a working number of 3.

A monoblock WP costs 13,000 + 19% minus 50% with all the Schnickschnack. Then you’ll get under 8,000 €.

Kleidchen2
2 months ago

They are similar to those in calorific devices.

Apollo382
2 months ago

Part, part. Partial rib heaters, partial floor heating. Bathrooms have underfloor heating, living room radiators, as I place carpets and upholstered furniture. The gas heating itself came a little over 2000 euros.

The flow temperature is 45 degrees. My house, I’ve already written it up, is now 4 years old.

Tommy731
2 months ago

And the maintenance costs? If what’s broken?

Kleidchen2
2 months ago

I’m talking about the heat pump.which costs after promotion around 9,000. And works with the radiators. Unless the pre-blue temperature is 90°. When is your house? rib heaters?

Apollo382
2 months ago

In the full price? With 14 radiators for a detached house? Three floors? With two bathrooms? With laying, piping, cabling? Really? Where?

Kleidchen2
2 months ago

You come to about 9,000 euros for a new WP. And it lasts as long.

Apollo382
2 months ago

I paid about 9000 euros for my gas heating. All taken together. The WP would have cost 24,000. At least four years ago.

I’d have to get the money in first. In addition, gas heating lasts 15 to 20 years. A WP 8 to 10 years (in the best case)

Kleidchen2
2 months ago

And why not with WP?

The logic is: if you heat sustainably and not climate-damaged, the consumption is your thing or your purse. It doesn’t hurt the public.

Kleidchen2
2 months ago

No, the newer WPs are loosely clear at 60° temperatures.

Of course, insulation is always better. But you would also reduce gas consumption

schleudermaxe
2 months ago

This depends as always on us, with gas is significantly cheaper.

Heat pump delivers too little and costs too much electricity, supplementing with heating fan is even more expensive as my neighbor is experiencing. His tenants are freezing.

Kleidchen2
2 months ago
Reply to  schleudermaxe

A kWh of current costs 32 ct, gas 11 ct. The WP has a working number of 4, the gas heating of 0.9 at most.

So 32 / 4 =8 ct, 11 / 0.9 = more than 12 ct.

The WP therefore costs 66% of gas, falling perspective.

Apollo382
2 months ago
Reply to  Kleidchen2

You compare apples with pears. On the one hand, a heat pump has no efficiency of 4, at least not at minus temperatures.

https://www.shk-profi.de/artikel/shk_Waermepumpe-Kn_ow-how-1485826.html

You’re happy when you get on the double. Second, modern gas heaters have efficiency of almost 100% (95 to 99)

https://www.thermondo.de/info/rat/comparison/effectiveness of heating/

And my gas costs only 8.4 cent /kW/h

schleudermaxe
2 months ago
Reply to  Kleidchen2

And why are many tenants freeze when sun Kram was installed, my neighbor has just purchased for 10,000 EUR heating fans, and also solar on the roof.

Apollo382
2 months ago

Unfortunately, you need the heating all the more if it’s really cold. In the other time, my solar thermal heats my heating free of charge. Well, almost free, the small circulation pump needs a little electricity.

Kleidchen2
2 months ago

The number of benefits may be below 4 weeks a year, for which it is over 4 on 16 weeks.

The efficiency of gas heaters is in the range you mentioned, you forget the gas coefficients.

Kleidchen2
2 months ago

Wow, that’s 200 fan heaters? Then he needs his own power plant. 400 kW!

Kiboman
2 months ago

In 2027, the EU has a wide emissions trading and the Co2 price is now the 5 specialist of ours.

that hits with about 6 cent / kWh on the gas costs, that is stand now and we know that the Co2 price continues to rise

schleudermaxe
2 months ago
Reply to  Kiboman

I’m sure the Christians will get him back.

Kleidchen2
2 months ago

WP is cheaper. Especially in the future.

Kleidchen2
2 months ago
Reply to  Huflattich

The electricity price from renewables falls in perspective.

Kleidchen2
2 months ago

Okay, let’s wait.

Kleidchen2
2 months ago

What does Trump have to do with it?

Kleidchen2
2 months ago

Oh, leave it. It has no purpose to discuss with someone who does not want to understand the connections.

Don’t use WP and I’ll change your behavior. And don’t worry about rising prices or weather disasters afterwards.

Kleidchen2
2 months ago

It’s a mess.

Kleidchen2
2 months ago

The feed supplement is a cause for higher electricity prices. The TSOs are remunerated via the market price without feeding.

THOPRO
2 months ago

gas

heat pumps are still running

THOPRO
2 months ago
Reply to  Huflattich
habakuk63
1 month ago
Reply to  THOPRO

What defects? Now have three houses that are heated with WP and there have been no unplanned failures since 2015.

DoctorWhatsup
2 months ago

Warmth will always be cheaper because gas gets more and more conditions and CO2 emissions.

habakuk63
1 month ago
Reply to  Huflattich

Why is electricity becoming more and more expensive in Germany? Because the price of electricity is determined by the price determination method (Merrit or Procedure) not as an average of the purchase prices but by the most expensive purchase price (and that is gas). The electricity companies make the bags full because they use a lot of favorable wind and PV electricity, and about 25% gas electricity shopping “must”. But the electricity is sold as if 100% gas were purchased. A schelm who thinks evil.

schleudermaxe
2 months ago
Reply to  DoctorWhatsup

Then only the right house has to be found, but most of them do not.

habakuk63
1 month ago

It’s not the fault of the Greens. Mrs Merkel has rightly stated that Germany should be climate neutral. There is also no alternative because we only have this one planet to live.

The currently +1.6°C global warming is unfortunately not yet the end and at +2°C will be as storms as they met last weeks Ireland and England have a regular, almost monthly “event” and the only way to permanently limit it is away from burning fossil fuels.

That’s uncomfortable, that’s expensive, but the later we react (because it doesn’t get so bad) the more incisive and massively expensive it gets. I may still experience abandoning the 10 to 20km coastal landscape because we have taken the necessary measures too late and too hesitant.

If anyone tells, “Climate protection we don’t need to be too expensive to doof” that turns into a series of Trump who tells that the US tariffs are paid by China and Canada.

habakuk63
1 month ago

The CO2 tax is currently 3ct/kWh, which should be usable.