also the additional heat you produce outside of the building... making some AC-dense city areas even more unbearable at 40°C than they already are.
Energy costs are much lower with heat pumps. But cost of heat pump is higher up front.
Energy costs are high because of the European culture of degrowth - Germany shut down all its nuclear plants in favour of buying Russian gas and oil.
Nobody (no mainstream party that is actually in government) is really taking degrowth as a goal.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
Germany also was the biggest country for solar energy, what it's essentially making a huge chunk of the energy production in summer in Europe, what started the industrialization of solar panels, making them dirt cheap. (Also Europe is not just Germany making a dumb decision before)
The dynamic energy price in Germany in sunny days even goes to negative: they pay you for using energy! Crazy. But there is lots and lots of solar systems. I know relatively many people installing 2 way heat pumps, so it may be changing.
Solar has obvious downsides, but it happens to be essentially the perfect source of power for running AC. Hot weather has a very strong correlation with sunny weather! So blaming overly enthusiastic solar adoption for reticence to use AC doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
Not really. The plan is to change for renewables. If they will be able to is another discussion.
Was there a plan ir just idea and lots of emotions?