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Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Germany: ~15%

France: ~6–8%

Netherlands: ~5–7%

USA: <1%

[–] variaatio@nord.pub 2 points 1 day ago

yeah, well usually district heating is a thing in places where heating is major energy consumer. Russia, Nordic countries, Canada and so on.

More temperate places don't have district heating, since the heating need isn't intense enough to warrant it.

The network is expensive to build, but the vast economies of scale make the actual on going heating more efficient and cheaper. Whatever the heating source might be. Be it fuel burning boiler or industrial scale heat pumps.