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Unless all the heat in Europe switches over to electric powered, you're still going to have natgas crunches from time to time during the winter.
by jdhn 5y ago
Unless all the heat in Europe switches over to electric powered, you're still going to have natgas crunches from time to time during the winter.
- nicoburns 5y agoThis will happen eventually for climate change reasons, but I think it's going to take a while.
- raxxorrax 5y agoSupply of gas isn't endangered currently, on the contrary. There are parties competing to sell ressources. What drives energy prices in central Europe are investments in changing the infrastructure to renewable. Yes, that isn't cheap. But not really a crisis in the common sense. Some people would like to see the gas prices inflated perhaps.
- fmajid 5y agoThe French government is massively subsidizing conversions from oil or gas furnaces to heat pumps, and their electricity is majority nuclear.