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> Cold winter days don't represent peak consumption for the grid, there is no capacity being built specifically for cold winter days. That might be true in Cal
by oldsecondhand 5y ago
> Cold winter days don't represent peak consumption for the grid, there is no capacity being built specifically for cold winter days.
That might be true in California, but in Europe that's where the peak demand was before AC got popular. And it can easily go back to that with the spread of heat pumps.
- fulafel 5y agoEurope runs from Siberia to Spain, there's lots of variation in winter heating systems. In colder quarters people mostly burn stuff instead of using electricity, but also houses are well insulated (because you need to heat all the time and you can't afford not to insulate).