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The problem is that if everyone comes off of fossil fuel heat and switches to heat pumps, you need a grid that is capable of delivering enough eletricity to pow
by zdragnar 4y ago
The problem is that if everyone comes off of fossil fuel heat and switches to heat pumps, you need a grid that is capable of delivering enough eletricity to power simultaneous resistive heating to every house... because every house is going to need resistive heating at the most dangerous time to not have any heat at all.
These cold snaps tend to also coincide with extreme winds and other weather events that can take out power lines, so a stressed grid just compounds the issue.
- jupp0r 4y agoOn top of that, it's also the time when you need the most energy for heating because it's the coldest.