They checked how to heat your home to reduce your bills. The results are surprising
Heat pumps are winning the battle for the cheapest home heating. Expert analysis shows that with falling energy prices, their users have gained significant savings, while gas costs are rising.
Based on the latest energy tariffs approved by the President of the Energy Regulatory Office (URE), the Polish Organization for the Development of Heat Pump Technology (PORT PC) conducted an analysis of the costs of heating a 150 m² house inhabited by four people from July to September. The results are clear – heat pumps are currently the cheapest heating option.
How to lower your electricity bills?
The government’s Clean Air program, which subsidizes gas boilers, may soon cause financial problems for Poles. On the other hand, trust in heat pumps has been undermined by unfair practices from sellers and a lack of appropriate political action. In the context of rising bills and uncertain forecasts, experts from PORT PC decided to calculate the costs of heating homes.
Let us recall that the Act on the temporary restriction of electricity, natural gas and district heating prices, which entered into force on July 1, 2024, extends the freeze on electricity prices for households until the end of 2024. However, this Act raises the level of these prices, but at the same time abolishes limits on the consumption of cheaper energy, which is beneficial for heat pump users.
Advantages of heat pumps
PORT PC analysts note that “the situation is definitely more favorable for heat pumps. In 2024, their competitiveness in terms of operating costs is clearly improving. Thanks to the drop in market prices of electricity, heat pump users using the G12w zone tariff gained a real reduction in the cost of this energy by about 10 percent at the beginning of 2024.”
After July 1, 2024, heat pump users can count on another reduction in energy prices, including distribution costs, also by 10 percent.
Gas prices are rising
In turn, owners of gas boilers, often encouraged by the state, are facing rising costs. Gas prices and distribution rates have risen, meaning that the average bill for heating a home with a gas boiler will increase by around 22 percent, including VAT.
Paweł Lachman, president of PORT PC, emphasizes that “the differences in the costs of heating a house with a heat pump and a gas condensing boiler now reach, after the change in electricity and natural gas prices, from 30 to even over 50 percent in the case of underfloor heating, which is already a standard in new single-family houses. Heat pumps have clearly benefited from the price change.”
