Are you limited to a certain amount of energy in Europe or is heating cost prohibitive?
Where I live in NY I’ve had heating bills running $600/month in January and February. Granted my house is 150 years old. I hate paying the bill but I cut other things when necessary, I can’t stand being cold and dressed in layers inside my own home.
I live within 45 miles of 3 Nuke plants. I think 2 are always offline. The other sends it’s energy to NYC. We get screwed.
The UK energy rates are actually less than almost all of Europe, because of taxes/green initiatives and nationalization in the EU counties, I would guess.
Data is here, sorry about the formatting -
www.energy.eu/
GAS - cost is in Euros for KW-hr equivalent
Austria 0.06691
Denmark 0.10805
France 0.05706
Germany 0.06139
Ireland 0.05827
Sweden 0.11523
United Kingdom 0.04450
ELECTRICITY - cost is in Euros for KW-hr
Austria 0.20147
Denmark 0.29525
France 0.14466
Germany 0.26527
Ireland 0.22518
Sweden 0.20361
United Kingdom 0.17078
The UK number is about 23 US cents a KW-hr
It seems that the high number of nuclear plants built in France actually paid off....:^)
“Are you limited to a certain amount of energy in Europe or is heating cost prohibitive?”
When he first went there, he rented a place and had to put money in some machine to get the heat on. Yes, it is expensive.
As he went up the professional/social ladder, he bought a house and didn’t have to put money in to keep it going, but those radiators aren’t turned on very often. It’s a miserable place to live in winter. You will wear a heavy sweater inside and the thickest socks you have.
Hot water isn’t there UNLESS you turn on the machine to heat the water. There is a machine in each bathroom and you turn it on and it heats the water for a bath/shower. When you are finished, you turn the machine off.