European Environmental Bureau: German medium-sized company STIEBEL ELTRON is "Leader" of the Energy Transition 2023

"We are delighted to receive this award from the European Environmental Bureau, which already recognises all Stiebel Eltron appliances as climate-friendly," says Dr. Kai Schiefelbein, Managing Director of the Stiebel Eltron Group. "Environmentally friendly heat pumps hvae been the central recipe for success in our company history for decades. On this basis, we are now an experienced specialist for the energy turnaround in boiler rooms."

Sluggish heat transition in Europe: 75 percent fossil-fuel heating systems

Heat pumps are more in demand today than ever before, because three quarters of the buildings in the European Union are still heated with fossil fuels. The building sector is responsible for 36 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU - yet clean technologies for heating rooms have existed for a long time.

"The switch to environmentally friendly technology with renewable energies must be pushed further," says Dr Schiefelbein. "The lifetime of a heating system is about 20 to 25 years. In order to achieve the goal of climate neutrality by 2050, the heat transition is therefore already of great urgency today. Electricity-driven heat pump technology plays a key role in this. It mainly uses freely available energy from the air, the ground or groundwater and thus renewable, unlimited energy sources. At the same time, we become independent of fossil energy imports."

About the EEB Audit 2023 

The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) has examined the portfolios of the largest heating manufacturers on the European market and rated them according to their climate friendliness. The 2023 audit is based on a survey of manufacturers and information from the public database for energy labels: European Product Registry for Energy Labelling (EPREL): https://www.coolproducts.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Coolproducts-The-coolest-heating-2023.pdf

Leading suppliers appeal to politicians: end fossil heating systems

17 "Leaders" of the heating industry appeal to politicians to end the subsidisation of fossil heating systems and their sale. https://www.coolproducts.eu/coolproducts-reports/industry-warms-up-to-the-clean-heat-transition-calls-on-policies-to-follow/