With 2024 data....German numbers and the heating:
- Oil, 17-percent
- Natural gas, 56-percent
- Heat-pump, 4.4-percent
- District station, 15.5-percent
- Electrical: 2.5-percent (usually the most expensive way)
- Coal: .2-percent (fairly rare)
- Wood: 4.1-percent
Back in the early 90's....I was assigned to Bitburg, and a co-worker had a house-rental with only electrical heaters. It was an enticing low rental price....but heat was six times what I was paying for natural gas heat.
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Gas heating is still the cheapest way to go. The price averages anywhere from 10 to 17 cent per kwh. Electricity is about 32 to 60 cent per kwh. My new gas heating system is 97% efficient, so, little to no emissions. (I don't like the fact they charge you per kwh and measure in cubic meters)
Up until the Ukraine war, I agree. Presently....I'd lean toward wood (price-wise), but it's messy and consumes space to store.
Is propane not commonly used for heating in germany?
I had to look it up.....650k home/residences are heated by propane....roughly 1.5-percent of German homes. Where you find it used....highly rural locations (middle of nowhere). The wife's family house...back in the early-80s...had a propane system/tank for 5 years....kept having a slow leak problem. The minute that the village ran natural gas lines out....that was the switch-over moment. Lot of Germans have a propane situation for their garden house/hut....where they might go out for the weekend.
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