Private households in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia have saved more energy last year than the national average, according to projections. While the heating energy demand adjusted for the factor outside temperature fell nationwide by 5 percent, it was Thuringia 7 percent, according to the "Heat Monitor" published on Wednesday by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin. In Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt was consumed in each case 5.5 percent less energy than in the year before.
The basis is data from the real estate service provider Ista. For the study the heating energy accounts of country widely 150,000 two and multi-family houses with approximately one million dwellings were evaluated. The data refer to an extrapolation to 300,000 buildings, since at the time of the survey not all data were available.
The Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, as a result of which energy prices shot up, began on February 24, 2022. Accordingly, citizens in Germany did not save more gas, oil and electricity until the end of 2022.
