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Electric heating? Do you mean resistive heating, or heat pumps? It's been difficult in this discussion to figure out what people are saying.
by wumpus 5y ago
Electric heating? Do you mean resistive heating, or heat pumps? It's been difficult in this discussion to figure out what people are saying.
- OJFord 5y agoAnd when you say resistive, do you mean element within (an electric) boiler, radiators to work as normal, or something more direct, electric radiators/underfloor/etc.? I think it doesn't really matter much what is meant throughout - point was about shifting gas demand on to the electricity supply, and whether the grid could cope with it if everyone did that to a meaningful degree.
- BenjiWiebe 5y agoResistive heating means using 1kw of electricity to get 1kw of heat. Heat pumps use 1kw of electricity to get >1kw heat.
- OJFord 5y agoNot necessarily, it's just uncorrelated since it's not what's doing the actual heating. Similarly a gas boiler uses 1kW electricity (for the pump) to get potentially >1kW heat out of radiators (and pipes). Because that heat is energy conserved from the gas, not the electricity. Anyway I didn't mention heat pumps or compare them to resistive heating so I'm not sure what I'm defending.