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netz_pirat t1_j7ywddc wrote

Reply to comment by Vericeon in Renewables are on track to satiate the world's appetite for electricity by ForHidingSquirrels

Three years is pretty short though. For Germany, I expect the energy consumption to rise due to heat pumps replacing gas /oil heating and electric cars replacing ice engines.

I don't think we can increase renewable energy generation fast enough to cover those as well as the existing generation in the next few years, but it's still a overall emissions reduction.

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Rofel_Wodring t1_j7zlts4 wrote

Electricity consumption, yes. Energy consumption?

I think people would be appalled to learn how much energy gets wasted on things like legacy HVAC and cheap housing. Let me put it this way: energy efficiently management is sort of a scam in the area I live, but the legacy HVAC is so wasteful and suboptimized that even a charlatan can bring results.

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