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> It also takes a while to increase the supply of electricity so that we have enough power for tens of millions of heat pumps running all winter. The same ther
by danans 4y ago
> It also takes a while to increase the supply of electricity so that we have enough power for tens of millions of heat pumps running all winter.
The same therm of natural gas that would have been burned in a domestic gas boiler, if burned in a modern combined cycle gas electricity plant, can provide 2-3X the amount of domestic heat via heat pumps even in the coldest conditions. In shoulder seasons it's more like 3-4X.
The load we need to expand electricity production for is EVs, which use a ton of it comparatively.
- adrianN 4y agoOf course heat pumps are great, but right now the gas is burned in millions of homes. We still need to build the capacity to burn about a third of that gas in combined cycle plants, we don't have them lying around idle.