Electricity Prices by Country

Post by lotsofpulp » Sat, Apr 08, 2023, 10:23 PM UTC

haupt wrote: post #127

tzs wrote: post #110

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I'd guess that a far bigger factor is that the US has a much higher percentage of houses the use electricity for room heating. I believe that it is similar for water heating. In the US there is also a high percentage of houses that use electricity for the stoves and oven and for clothes drying. A brief didn't turn up how much electricity is used for those things in the UK, but if it is like much of the rest of Europe…

>In the US around 26% of houses use electricity as their only energy source, compared to around 9% for the UK. Something that was interesting to me when I moved from California to central Oregon was that nearly everything was powered by electricity. I didn't even know anybody with a gas stove in Oregon.

Post by hgsgm » Sat, Apr 08, 2023, 10:31 PM UTC

Post by hgsgm » Sat, Apr 08, 2023, 10:34 PM UTC

lotsofpulp wrote: post #108

rippercushions wrote: post #105

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Nope, electric heating uses much more power than air conditioning.

I guess that is true, I just imagined so few domiciles actually use electric heating, or use electric heating in places that do not get really cold, that it is not a significant factor in national statistics of electricity usage. Seems like 40% of US households use electric heating though, which is way more than I expected. https://www.census.gov/acs/www/about/why-we-ask-each-questio... Edit: fixed link

Post by lotsofpulp » Sat, Apr 08, 2023, 10:39 PM UTC

hgsgm wrote: post #135

lotsofpulp wrote: post #108

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I guess that is true, I just imagined so few domiciles actually use electric heating, or use electric heating in places that do not get really cold, that it is not a significant factor in national statistics of electricity usage. Seems like 40% of US households use electric heating though, which is way more than I expected. https://www.census.gov/acs/www/about/why-we-ask-each-questio... Edit: fixed link

Bad link. But I'd like to see it by state. In Florida electric heat may exist but never be used, while Massachusetts needs heat and uses oil or gas.

Post by robocat » Sat, Apr 08, 2023, 10:45 PM UTC

cbmuser wrote: post #93

reducesuffering wrote: post #80

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Poland's coal use is also a huge problem. However, they don't receive as much comment because Germany is richer, so more able to afford cleaner energy sources, and Poland wasn't ignorant and short-sighted about using Russian natural gas.

Poland is actually going to build nuclear power plants soon. In ten years, Poland‘s electricity mix will be much cleaner than Germany‘s.

  EXPORTS
  In 2021, Poland exported $926M in Electricity. The main destination of Electricity exports from Poland are: Lithuania ($430M), Slovakia ($388M), Czechia ($56.5M), Germany ($28.8M), and Sweden ($23M).

  IMPORTS
  In 2021, Poland imported $1.45B in Electricity. Poland imports Electricity primarily from: Germany ($911M), Sweden ($299M), Lithuania ($131M), Ukraine ($63.4M), and Czechia ($43.5M).