House crisis, insane gas prices and crazy petrol prices. What a time to be alive.
time to eat beans and sell my methane
So for both car fuel and natural gas we pay more taxes than any other country in Europe (probably the world).
So our whole “gas price crisis” that is going on in our country is mostly artificial and basically kept alive by the fact that 2/3rds of the gas price goes to the government. Pretty much 200% tax, just great.
We win again! Proud of my country.
You could see the gas prices higher area is Western Europe, who make energy crisis
Finland has been removing the gas connections from private apartments for the last 50 years. Those were only really used for cooking anyway, and of course some cooking fans are sad about that. Now days, home cooks use often separate gas bottles for their power cookings.
In cities, heating the apartments and hot water are mostly made with district heating. We really never had individual heating for an apartment, the building has a heating system for everybody, including the tap water, and those are included in the house maintenance fees.
For the last 30 years, households that want the gas for cooking etc pay **flat rate gas fee, around 16 EUR/month** ( 1.50 EUR/month for the gas + 14.8 EUR/month for the transmission). If somebody has very unusual setup of heating the house/tap water with gas, the monthly basic rate is 23 EUR/month and 0.14 EUR/KWh. Taxes are included. Heavy users like restaurants and industrial gas users have a quite lot lower rates than that.
District heating networks were built in some cities starting in the 1960s, as a worlds fist. Very brave technology and project to see if that would work. Now the district heating provides practically all the heating in cities. Some buildings also have district cooling too.
Electrical power plants produce about 1/3 of electricity and 2/3 of heat. That excess heat is **not** pumped to sea/lakes, but rather piped around the cities to heat up the buildings and tap water. Building receives district heating fluids of 115/65 C (winter/summer). Fluid exit temperatures back to the district heating network is around 50 C. That makes (even coal powered) plants very efficient and environmentally friendly(!), as the **energy is not lost** and it is taken into use and sold to customers.
For the returning district heating water, there are some streets in the city which are kept snow free with that returning fluids circulating close to the street pavement level. Some streets with a bit too steep hills are also deiced with the returning heating fluids passing in shallow pipes where needed.
That still does not stop the left-green idiot-ideologist to oppose coal power plants, as they do not understand much about power efficiency and even less of this basic technology. These stupids will just copy their Ideologies from other countries, like politicians often do.
By comparison, in Russia the average price of gas for households is 4176 rubles per 1,000 cubic meters, or about 50 euros. Given that there are 11 kWh in a cubic meter, this gives 50/(11*1000) = 0.0045 EUR, this would be roughly half the figure in Georgia
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House crisis, insane gas prices and crazy petrol prices. What a time to be alive.
time to eat beans and sell my methane
So for both car fuel and natural gas we pay more taxes than any other country in Europe (probably the world).
So our whole “gas price crisis” that is going on in our country is mostly artificial and basically kept alive by the fact that 2/3rds of the gas price goes to the government. Pretty much 200% tax, just great.
We win again! Proud of my country.
You could see the gas prices higher area is Western Europe, who make energy crisis
And to realize that those prices are for the **first** half of the year, if you want to ruin your weekend: have a look at the [1 year graph](https://www.theice.com/products/27996665/Dutch-TTF-Gas-Futures/data?marketId=5303640&span=2).
Would love to see the UK figures
Finland has been removing the gas connections from private apartments for the last 50 years. Those were only really used for cooking anyway, and of course some cooking fans are sad about that. Now days, home cooks use often separate gas bottles for their power cookings.
In cities, heating the apartments and hot water are mostly made with district heating. We really never had individual heating for an apartment, the building has a heating system for everybody, including the tap water, and those are included in the house maintenance fees.
For the last 30 years, households that want the gas for cooking etc pay **flat rate gas fee, around 16 EUR/month** ( 1.50 EUR/month for the gas + 14.8 EUR/month for the transmission). If somebody has very unusual setup of heating the house/tap water with gas, the monthly basic rate is 23 EUR/month and 0.14 EUR/KWh. Taxes are included. Heavy users like restaurants and industrial gas users have a quite lot lower rates than that.
District heating networks were built in some cities starting in the 1960s, as a worlds fist. Very brave technology and project to see if that would work. Now the district heating provides practically all the heating in cities. Some buildings also have district cooling too.
Electrical power plants produce about 1/3 of electricity and 2/3 of heat. That excess heat is **not** pumped to sea/lakes, but rather piped around the cities to heat up the buildings and tap water. Building receives district heating fluids of 115/65 C (winter/summer). Fluid exit temperatures back to the district heating network is around 50 C. That makes (even coal powered) plants very efficient and environmentally friendly(!), as the **energy is not lost** and it is taken into use and sold to customers.
For the returning district heating water, there are some streets in the city which are kept snow free with that returning fluids circulating close to the street pavement level. Some streets with a bit too steep hills are also deiced with the returning heating fluids passing in shallow pipes where needed.
That still does not stop the left-green idiot-ideologist to oppose coal power plants, as they do not understand much about power efficiency and even less of this basic technology. These stupids will just copy their Ideologies from other countries, like politicians often do.
By comparison, in Russia the average price of gas for households is 4176 rubles per 1,000 cubic meters, or about 50 euros. Given that there are 11 kWh in a cubic meter, this gives 50/(11*1000) = 0.0045 EUR, this would be roughly half the figure in Georgia