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Hamburg鈥檚 Wedel coal-fired district heating plant is lowering its coal combustion, which will lead to lower CO2 emissions in the years until its planned shutdown in 2025, Jens Meyer-Wellmann . The plant, which provides heating for much of the city, will make a 鈥渧oluntary commitment鈥� to reduce its use of coal by 20 percent from now on and by at least 30 percent per year from 2023, the report quotes the city-owned operator W盲rme Hamburg as saying. This would correspond to around 150,000 fewer tonnes of coal per year, the report notes. The reduction is possible because of a shift to gas-fired generators in Hamburg thermal power plants, it adds.听According to the company, this is a response "to the requirements of the 2013 referendum, the current climate protection legislation and also meets customer demands for the most climate-friendly heat possible."聽Hamburg's environment minister (called "Senator" in the city-state) Jens Kerstan from the Greens told the paper: 鈥淲ith the coal reduction, we are setting an example. We are showing that we are serious about climate protection and the heating transition.鈥� The reduction of coal in Wedel would be a 鈥渇irst important step鈥� in phasing out coal in the heating sector by 2030, he added.

Heating is聽a major factor in Germany's energy consumption.听聽of the country's total final energy consumption in 2018 went into space and water heating in buildings, and more than聽聽of Germany's heating systems are currently fuelled with oil and natural gas, according to the Federation of the German Heating Industry ().