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Carbon War and Energy Transition in Poland and Germany [1]

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Date: 2023-02-12  

Sales of heat pumps in Poland experienced a 120% rise in demand in 2022, as interest in the renewable heating technology booms across Europe. Poland saw sales grow to over 200,000 units in 2022, accelerated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and plans to move away from natural gas in heating buildings. In terms of equipment designed for central water heating, the increase reached 130%, representing almost one in three of all space heating units sold in 2022.

Source: https://www.coolingpost.com/world-news/heat-pump-sales-rise-120-in-poland/

More from the European Heat Pump Association https://www.ehpa.org/2023/02/08/ehpa_news/port-pc-2022-was-the-year-of-heat-pumps-in-poland/

German heat pump sales were also up 53%

Source: https://www.coolingpost.com/world-news/german-heat-pump-sales-up-53/

and German "Roof-mounted [solar] installations for family homes increased by 40 percent to nearly 3 GW"

Source: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-solar-power-capacity-2022-sees-fast-growth-still-well-below-target

Meanwhile, Poland installed the third most solar in the EU after Germany and Spain

Source: https://notesfrompoland.com/2022/12/20/poland-has-installed-third-most-solar-capacity-in-eu-this-year/

More from SolarPower Europe

https://www.solarpowereurope.org

EU Market Outlook for Solar Power 2022 - 2026

https://api.solarpowereurope.org/uploads/5222_SPE_EMO_2022_full_report_ver_03_1_319d70ca42.pdf

People, individual homeowners are responding to the carbon war by getting off fossil fuels and installing renewables. This is a response to the current war between Russia and Ukraine as well as to climate change. It's a connection I don't see made often enough.

As with climate change, perhaps this trend will only accelerate.



See Mandatory Solar for more https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/5/2145678/-Mandatory-Solar

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