Danish phasing out oil & gas heating.

[face cord]

As of the 1st of January 2013, the installation of oil-fired boilers and natural gas heating is banned in new buildings in Denmark. Starting 2016, the Danes will also ban the installation of new oil-fired boilers in existing buildings in areas where district heating or natural gas is available.

 

Denmark puts the brakes on heating costs with new legislation | anna-leidreiter

 

 

 

So they must all be changing to biomass or heat pumps?

[Stubby]

Or thicker jumpers ....

[easy-lift guy]

I understand Denmark is relatively small from a land mass point of view. Just curious how much heat is generated via electric and what condition their existing power grid is in?

easy-lift guy

[bigdave]

Or thicker jumpers ....

 

 

:lol:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

this bodes well, there is going to be a massive boom in forestry and much planting to sustain these moves!

[Amelanchier]

Or they'll just rely on their historically high investment in wind energy? Interesting though...

[Woodworks]

This page gives a good idea of how the Danes keep themselves warm Basic facts on Heat Supply in Denmark

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Or they'll just rely on their historically high investment in wind energy? Interesting though...

 

I feel the trick for the future is a diverse range of methods, all adding to a complete solution, bit of solar, wind bio, hydro and hydrogen:thumbup1:

[Alycidon]

this bodes well, there is going to be a massive boom in forestry and much planting to sustain these moves!

 

When I went there I did not see many trees, plenty over is Norway and Sweden though.

 

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[morten]

This page gives a good idea of how the Danes keep themselves warm Basic facts on Heat Supply in Denmark

 

To quote from the article:

HEATING DENMARK'S 2.5 MILLION HOUSEHOLDS

Electric heat: 6%

Oil: 18%

Natural gas: 15%

DH without electricity generation: 4%

Co-generated heat and electricity in small and medium-sized cities: 17%

Co-generated heat and electricity in large cities: 37%

Heat pumps: 0.4%

Solid fuel: 3%

 

... so only 18% of the heating energy will have to be converted to other sources over the next 15 years, or so. Quite achievable considering 1%/year.