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Re:3,599,040,600 € wired by Germany to Russia since the inva... by aerostable_slug on Monday March 21, 2022 @01:09PM (#30756728)
The issue isn't electricity, it's the fact that German municipal heat plants run on natural gas. Replacing all of that with electrically-powered equipment (centralized or at the endpoints) takes time.
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Re:3,599,040,600 € wired by Germany to Russia since the inva... by lostmsu on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @02:35AM (#30763274)
Also, heating energy consumption is among the top usages. So switching from gas would require large increase in electric generating capacity.
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