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Switching to electrical heating (even with heat pumps, not resistive) can create considerably different flows on the electricity grid. Considering all the time
by p_l 5y ago
Switching to electrical heating (even with heat pumps, not resistive) can create considerably different flows on the electricity grid. Considering all the time I hear complaints about electricity being blocked as means for heating in at least some places in Germany, I wonder if they simply haven't found out that their grid can't take it under current setup.
- KarlKemp 5y agoElectric heating is almost immoral in environmental terms. Instead of getting close to 100 % efficiency by burning fossil fuel in place, it is burned in a power plant at 30 % efficiency. This is changing with increasing solar and wind power, and heating is a flexible load that is useful to stabilize the grid. It as of now it‘s net-negative.
- p_l 5y agoInterestingly, apparently the further the Energiewende goes, the less approval there is for electric heating, including attempts to force removal of storage heaters.