Merz at one year: a health reform nobody loves and an energy bill nobody wanted

Germany's coalition passes a landmark health insurance overhaul as the Iran war slashes growth forecasts. Who pays, and who benefits?

the spend
Merz at one year: a health reform nobody loves and an energy bill nobody wanted

Germany's coalition passes a landmark health insurance overhaul as the Iran war slashes growth forecasts. Who pays, and who benefits?

the spend
Merz at one year: a health reform nobody loves and an energy bill nobody wanted

Germany's coalition passes a landmark health insurance overhaul as the Iran war slashes growth forecasts. Who pays, and who benefits?

the spend
Worst since WWII: Kallas decries breakdown of international law in Middle East and Ukraine

The European Union’s top foreign policy official sounds the alarm at the U.N. as President Donald Trump’s Iran escalation pushes the global order — and energy markets — to the brink.

POLITICO
EU plans emergency state aid rule change to address soaring energy costs

Change would make it easier for member countries to tackle fallout from U.S. war on Iran.

POLITICO
Sign the Petition

Scrap the VAT on domestic energy bills

Change.org
Why your energy bill is suddenly so much more expensive

And why it’s not getting cheaper any time soon.

Grist
This newbie UK minister faces a baptism of fire on a key Labour promise

Miatta Fahnbulleh, left-wing-economist-turned Labour minister, has been tasked with cutting Brits’ energy bills. But convincing the Treasury to budge makes it a mammoth task.

POLITICO

I promised a blog post about how much it cost to heat our home in winter with heat pump vs. gas. Also about the much improved insulation. Here it is:

http://davidhembrow.blogspot.com/2024/04/relative-cost-of-heating-with-heat-pump.html

To summarise: In the worst case, our CO2 emissions are reduced by 95% vs. burning gas, we have no heating bill at all any more, and our home was warmer than before.

#VanHetGasAf #HeatPump #Insulation #EnergyBill #Heating #EnergyCost #CO2Budget #ZeroCO2Emission #EnergyEfficiency

Relative cost of heating with a heat pump vs. gas (How to reduce your heating bill by 100%)

We've now had our heat pump for one whole winter. For the purposes of this blog post, "winter" refers to each period of November through to...