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The electrical grid also cannot handle all-electric heating for all households, at least in Germany. France is different because of their big nuclear fleet. Ve
by corty 5y ago
The electrical grid also cannot handle all-electric heating for all households, at least in Germany. France is different because of their big nuclear fleet.
Very often, green energy discussions forget that doing everything (heating, traffic, industrial processes) electrically needs an increase in electric capacity by a factor of 2 or 3 at least.
- adrianN 5y agoLuckily switching to all electric heating will take long enough to give us time to increase generation capacity sufficiently. Everybody except the politicians setting the targets for renewable energy knows that electricity demand will be much higher in the future when everything runs on electricity.