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> I am also surprised with the idea that electricity consumption will go down. With heating going electric, cars going electric, and mass immigration (hence pop
by danans 3y ago
> I am also surprised with the idea that electricity consumption will go down. With heating going electric, cars going electric, and mass immigration (hence population growth), that seems counter intuitive to me.
The article says energy consumption (which includes electricity and also fossil fuels burned for heating/transportation) will go down, but electricity consumption will go up.
But even the rise in electricity consumption will be tempered by the fact that electrical end uses are so much more efficient than fossil fuel burning equivalents, in particular for heating and transportation.
Heat pumps can move 3-4 times more energy than they consume, and EVs are likewise far more efficient at turning energy into motion.
- fy20 3y agoModern building techniques also play a big part in it. Houses build to modern building standards (see Scandinavia and Central Europe - the UK and Ireland is still lacking here) uses a hell of a lot less energy for heating than houses built even two decades ago. Last year I was renting a house built in the early 2000s. It was poorly insulated and inside we had the thermostat set to 18c, yet our gas bill for November was €400. Over Christmas I moved into a newer house built in 2018 that was the same size, the thermostat was set to 22c and during February (which was much colder than November) the gas bill was under €200.