What energy do you use

Here in Australia we have a big coal scene for our own use and export. I wonder what other people in the world use, has most of Europe switched to renewables?

I'm with an Australian crowd called Qenergy, which is coal, but I'd rather be on renewables to be honest but it costs more

Collectr

I'm with an Australian crowd called Qenergy, which is coal, but I'd rather be on renewables to be honest but it costs more

Costs more for whom? For you, or to the planet?

Mains electricity, which in New Zealand is mostly generated by Hydro electric or Thermal power. Very little to no coal in burned here as we are very environmentally conscious. Many people also have solar panels as well.

Heating and cooling is done by a heat pump. Living in the warm north of our country, we don't have a chimney or fireplace as it stays above freezing all year round and our winter average temperature is a mild 12 degrees positive and our summers are cold by global standards (Average temperature 19, but lately about 21 - 22). It seldom gets above 27c or below 7c through the whole year here!

In RO it's pretty well diversified

For us we use Kerosene to heat our home. The house we live in is one of the last houses to have a kerosene based heating system in the area.

peanut, soy, canola or cottonseed oil burn as nicely in the same engines as kero, or petro-diesel.

lexfurther

Just installed solar panels for the first time . Very excited about it!

We have had solar panels for some years now - very satisfied.

Our household is powered by electricity only, with a mix of solar power from our own panels and hydro power from the grid. An air to water heat pump gives heating (max. 21 degrees Celsius) and an air to air heat pump gives cooling (in the summer). Actually, the latter is turned on when the house interior is warmer than 25 degrees Celsius - then it gives 20 degrees heating (in reality cooling).

The annual household import and export of electricity is almost equal, a few percent less export than import.

I live in Australia, and I am off-grid. Which means I don't need to rely on other places to get power. I have solar panels on the roof, connected to 4 car batteries.

NN.Ben

I live in Australia, and I am off-grid. Which means I don't need to rely on other places to get power. I have solar panels on the roof, connected to 4 car batteries.

How do you keep warm at night? 🥶

Off-grid would be optimal in my case, but would need a lot of resources where I live, and is not feasible for a private household.

The coldest night we had this winter (which is not over yet) was around -17 degrees Celsius (1.4 Fahrenheit). Luckily there was no wind (no added chill factor). Electricity consumption were 110 kWh for a 24h period.

Hapertas

NN.Ben

I live in Australia, and I am off-grid. Which means I don't need to rely on other places to get power. I have solar panels on the roof, connected to 4 car batteries.

How do you keep warm at night? 🥶

 

Off-grid would be optimal in my case, but would need a lot of resources where I live, and is not feasible for a private household.

 

The coldest night we had this winter (which is not over yet) was around -17 degrees Celsius (1.4 Fahrenheit). Luckily there was no wind (no added chill factor). Electricity consumption were 110 kWh for a 24h period.

The amount of power I can use is very limited. I don't use a heater. I have a fan for summer though. I just have extra blankets in winter 🙂

Natural gas for heat, hot water and cooking.

My electric provider is at 45% coal, 30% natural gas, 7% nuclear and 18% renewables.

Pity that nuclear has such a bad rap these days.

Wood from family owned nearby forests ( not ideal but renewable in its own way) added to two  massive mass stoves for the best efficiency to heat the house and some slow cooking, electricity for lights and the rest of cooking, I choose the ONLY really low carbon mix possible ( when you don't have hydro or geothermal) NUCLEAR+ 10/20 % of renewables to keep on developing and improving the technologies.

All the rest is bullshit, sorry, horrible carbon footprints fucking up the climate.

My colleague built a new house 5 years ago with triple glazed windows. 

He has some special - wall cavity  insulation & installed reflectors on the radiators. Underfloor heating & solar panels complete the push towards minimal usage of gas & oil.

Summer time his house is like a boiler inspite of all windows & doors being kept open. Winter time fuel savings are phenomenal.

All electricity from power plants with the following sources:

• Nuclear: 41%
• Natural gas: 36%
• Coal: 11%
• Renewables: 11%
• Other: 1%

Wow, I didn't know there was any place in the U.S. with such a high nuclear compnent.

New England ISO at this moment

Imports is mostly Hydro Quebec, and a smaller NY-ISO grid mix, which is similar to NE.

if you add big hydro to renewables, you can see New England is ⅓ renewable, ⅓ nuclear, ⅓ gas.

for non-us readers, the six New England States taken together, as they often are,  have similar economic performance and population to the Netherlands. 

We had solar panels installed 7 years ago.  Since then we have generated 44 GW which means our savings are now more than the cost of the panels and they are still working very well.

If coal is properly burned and processed it has very little CO₂ emissions, and is way more environmentally friendly than Nuclear power.

jc'scoins

If coal is properly burned and processed it has very little CO₂ emissions, and is way more environmentally friendly than Nuclear power.

nonsense. CO2 is the result of burning carbon. coal is almost pure carbon.  -  C+O2=CO2  in the ratio of 12:44. 

environmentally friendly is too vague to have any meaning, they are both very environmentally unfriendly, in different ways. 

I just checked, and I have:

Renewable: 47%

Nuclear: 27%

Fossil: 26% 

CO₂ emission: 189.6 g/kWh

Nuclear fuel waste: 0.00079 g/kWh

Spookie

We had solar panels installed 7 years ago.  Since then we have generated 44 GW which means our savings are now more than the cost of the panels and they are still working very well.

7 year payback time is nothing to sniff at!

jc'scoins

If coal is properly burned and processed it has very little CO₂ emissions, and is way more environmentally friendly than Nuclear power.

The first statement is impossible (maybe you meant to say SO2 emissions?).  The second one is a matter of opinion.  

Hello colleagues
I will once again combine collecting and energy in one sentence.

Today the post office brought me an overpayment for electricity (I pay gas and electricity in advance) and once a year they return overpayments on advances.

The majority of the population has borne the brunt of the increased prices, sometimes even tragically. I fixed the price for 3 years in time before the price increase, and in the fall, when the war is over and energy prices decrease, my fixation will end and I will conclude new contracts.

I have a gas condensing boiler for heating and water heating and hot water underfloor heating and radiators.

At the same time, I own a small forest and have a cast-iron wood-burning fireplace with a heat collector and warm air distribution to the upper floor and all rooms ( I will load the fireplace with wood only exceptionally as an insurance policy if the electricity doesn't work or to improve romantic sitting and special well-being.)- I don't want to burn wood and increase CO2.

I have my own water and I am self-sufficient in everything, and at the same time I have everything refilled 3 times with each other in case the situation worsens ( I mean, I can heat with gas and direct heaters and with wood and not be dependent on energy supplies)

However, 5 tablets, 7 phones (grandchildren can only bring push-button phones to school) at home they have Android - so they can't run around on screens, 3x notebooks, play station 5 ,and also PS4 +virtual reality helmet and all possible controllers, two televisions, everything turned on to taste.

I don't know how it would be powered without electricity.

Czech Republic and electricity:

the first are coal-fired power plants and heating plants

8 percent gas

then hydro, solar and wind

Looking at the left, you can see the share of individual sources in electricity production, to which we have assigned the corresponding amount of CO2eq emissions.

At first glance, the graph shows the disparity between production and related emissions at coal-fired power plants and heating plants. They account for 47% of electricity production, but produce 88% of all emissions in the electricity sector. If we were to add up the production of coal and gas power plants, we arrive at a 54% share of production from fossil sources, which are, however, at the same time responsible for 96% of emissions in the given sector.

Today the post office brought me an overpayment only for electricity (I already received gas in the winter, the same amount saved)

and now what they brought me is all UNC only I put it in the wallet folded in half- a little bit for lovers of banknotes that I got today for saved electricity:

I'll exchange it at the bank for,, leva,, to Bulgaria for dinner in the summer.

Ahoj Ivan

Just had solar panels fitted on the house last October and we are now starting to see the benefits…