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If my calculations are correct, only ~21% of gas used in europe is used for electricity, so halving the dependency. If combined power and heat plants can't be s
by danhor 5y ago
If my calculations are correct, only ~21% of gas used in europe is used for electricity, so halving the dependency. If combined power and heat plants can't be shut down (because they can't be replaced that based and still need to produce heat), this results in 12.6% of gas used only in electricity only power plants. The latter isn't really that useful.
Source for all numbers: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/sankey/energy/sankey.html?geos=EU27_2020&year=2020&unit=TJ&fuels=TOTAL&highlight=_&nodeDisagg=1111111111111&flowDisagg=true&translateX=-1694.6872781131412&translateY=-947.2658869554716&scale=2.376781091900079&language=EN https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/sankey/energy/sankey.htm...
16.03e6 TJ gas total
2.03e6 TJ used for electricity only
2.30e6 TJ used for electricity & heat, 60% of resulting (usable) energy is electricity
-> 1.37TJ
-> 3.40TJ of gas used for electricity, around 21%
- panick21_ 5y agoAs far as I know France uses mostly electrical heating and most of that is powered by nuclear. Had other industrial nations acted like France in the 70s our problems, health wise, climate change wise and geopolitical would be about 1000x better.
- danhor 5y agoFrance uses a lot more electrical heating than neighbouring countries, but gas (35%) and oil (10%) combined are more than their electrical heating (41%). Shutting of a large part of gas supplies would still be a problem. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1086485/types-heater-housing-main-france/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1086485/types-heater-hou...