The upcoming winter could be expensive. This is partly due to the capital price jumps for heating materials. Everyone who still heats their home with electricity is hit particularly hard this time.
The first snowfall in November made it clear to many that the unusually mild temperatures could soon be over. Then the heating season starts again. And that could become an enormous financial burden for many this year, because the wave of inflation has not stopped at heating material. Expensive heating oil At the top of the price list of the most popular types of heating is heating oil, with which almost 55,000 Carinthian households still have their own four walls heat. For an average household with a requirement of 2000 liters of heating oil per year for heating and hot water – the equivalent of 20,000 kilowatt hours – this means annual costs of a good 3400 euros or 17 cents per kWh. Pellets are also significantly more expensive. The situation is similar with wood, which is used in 73,000 households is burned, namely as wood chips or logs, but also as pellets. The latter have even become almost 150 percent more expensive compared to the previous year. This heats for the equivalent of 14.12 cents per kilowatt hour, i.e. around 2800 euros a year.Smallest price increase in district heatingThe smallest price increase is initially for the many customers of the various providers of district heating, many of whom are already relying on renewable energies. 80,000 households in Carinthia are supplied with it. Their costs are largely based on the usual consumer price index and not on the energy price, which has risen much more sharply. But that still means an increase of a good 20 percent compared to the previous year.Extreme case of electric heatingAside from these three major forms of heating, there is also an extreme case: more than 10,000 Carinthian families heat exclusively with electricity. In the 1980s, hydropower in Carinthia experienced a real boom and was advertised as “domestic renewable energy”. This is why electric heating was a popular system at the time. In the meantime, however, the electricity price has multiplied compared to the previous year. For an average household, this could mean heating costs of a good 10,000 euros this year. So many are already looking ahead to next winter. Renewable sources with kWh prices below ten cents are particularly attractive. There is support for such climate-neutral heating systems, among others, from the Carinthia Chamber of Labor, which is already offering its members an interest-free loan of 12,000 euros for switching to a heat pump, which must be repaid within five years. This also applies to heat pumps that are already were purchased in the previous year. At the general meeting of the Chamber of Labor on Thursday, it was also decided to extend this offer to photovoltaic systems and pellet heating systems from January 1, 2023.
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