“We have a warmth problem, not an electricity problem.”
-- Ricarda Lang, Co-Leader of the German Green Party
This whole heating issue lingers....week after week, with the Russia natural gas position.
As of 2020, about half of the forty-million German homes....are heated by natural gas. The rest? About a quarter are heated by heating oil. Around 5-percent by electrical heating (fairly expensive). Around 15-percent is heated by district-plants (meaning a plant in one neighborhood provides hot water to the district).....which the plant might be heated by coal, oil or natural gas. Remainder? Wood pellets, coal, charcoal, solar, etc.
I worked with an American in the mid-1990s in the Bitburg area, who had found this perfect home (garage, big yard, etc). What he didn't really pay attention to....in selecting to the home....was the electrical heat. So after the first winter, he was fairly shocked at the amount of power used, and the bill presented. For a lot of people....the electrical heat has been dumped over the past decade or two.
I would suggest, for the politicians and parties....they fail to grasp that money has been invested by various people to heat homes. To have this natural gas crisis erupt and trigger chaos....it's going to be a serious political to resolve.
My wife's house was originally heated by charcoal (1965 build), then for twenty years...oil, and about thirty years ago....flipped to propane, and eight years later....went to piped-in natural gas from the city. I would suggest that 90-percent of the homes in the village are now natural gas.
So where all this chaos breaks off into a bigger mess? If the shortage is readily apparent on natural gas.....then people will drag out electrical heaters, and electrical consumption will likely quadruple. The grid? I doubt if it can handle this challenge, and the whole E-car situation will be dragged into the mess for future consideration.
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