> for the 60% of European properties that are old and leaky, their installation must come with extra insulation.
Shouldn’t this be fixed no matter the heat source?
Shouldn’t this be fixed no matter the heat source?
Thermal heat from gas is cheap, even when gas is expensive. Gas has a LOT of btus. Furnaces are also far simpler to make and maintain than heat pumps, which is why they are still so popular.
Boilers can go either way.
Edmond, OK incentives geothermal installs in homes as its lowers the city's peak electricity costs. That said Edmond's average household income is $108k for a 31k households city in one of the cheapest metros in the country so they can afford it.
You can't just hear all that down, and improving the insulation is expensive, more expensive than just installing a new heating system. Think at least 50k EUR for a small house, five to ten times as much for a typical inner city large, multi tenant building.