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> Germany uses most of its gas for heating and industry That's a choice, again based on economics. There's no fundamental reason preventing electricity from re
by T-A 4y ago
> Germany uses most of its gas for heating and industry
That's a choice, again based on economics. There's no fundamental reason preventing electricity from replacing gas as an energy source for heating and industrial processes.
> gas is for peakers, nuclear is baseload.
Again, that's a choice based on economics. Spare nuclear (or oil or other) capacity can serve the same purpose.
> That can be seen by looking at the fact that France is using the same percentage of gas in their electricity generation as Germany
Why are you fixating on France? Try Sweden:
https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/energy/energy-supply-and-use/annual-energy-statistics-electricity-gas-and-district-heating/pong/tables-and-graphs/electricity-supply-and-use-20012020-gwh/ https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subje...
2020 electricity production (2021 statistics are not out yet):
Gas turbines and others: 13 GWh. Nuclear: 47262 GWh.