94 percent hard coal consumed by households in the EU is used in Poland – said experts from the Polish Economic Institute. At the same time, 18 percent district heating consumed by European farms is used in Poland – this is the largest amount in the entire EU.
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In the opinion of PIE experts, the way energy is used in households in Poland has “changed significantly” in the last 23 years compared to 2002. Indicators related to energy availability have also improved – the percentage of households assessing their thermal comfort as insufficient (by 8.4 percentage points) and having no access to hot water decreased (by 14.4 percentage points).
Gas displaces coal
As experts have noted, households are heating up to a much greater extent with natural gas (increase by 14.1 percentage points) at the expense of solid fuels, i.e. hard coal (decrease by 23.8 percentage points) and firewood (decrease by 21.1 percentage points). The share of households using electrical appliances also increased, including air conditioners (by 7.2 percentage points), dishwashers (by 40.3 percentage points) and computers (by 41.7 percentage points).
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“94% of hard coal consumed by households in the EU is used in Poland. Polish households consume 9% of the energy used by all such households in EU countries,” the Institute reported.
In the opinion of experts, the Central Statistical Office data show that households in Poland, among individual energy carriers, they use the most heat from the network (18%) and hard coal (94%). They noted that they are also at the forefront of energy consumption from renewable sources (9%). “These values are higher than the share of Polish society in the total EU population, which is 8 percent.” – they noticed.
