Energy Prices Are Driving Demand for Solar Panels and Heat Pumps

ChrisArchitect

Some discussions: Heat pump sales rise across Europe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012003 Iran war sparks renewables boom as Europeans rush to buy solar, heat pumps, EVs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601310

belviewreview

Remember how fossil fuel promoters always say its big advantage over solar and wind energy is reliability?

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Electrification is a no brainer. Electricity is essentially an abstraction layer that decouples the source of energy from the consumer. Even if you want to remain 100% fossil fuel dependent, it still makes a lot more sense, outside of some industrial uses, to generate electricity with those fossil fuels and then use the electricity to power your actual device, whether it’s your air conditioning unit or your automobile, than to ship liquid gas to hundreds of thousands of gas stations all over or build pipes to send gaseous natural gas to every house. Not only is it more efficient, as any abstracted system, it allows far more flexibility and resilience due to that flexibility.

dzhiurgis

Interesting timing that China is ending solar panel and battery export subsidies this year. Panel I've bought 15 months ago is 20% more expensive now.