Although the costs of natural gas are currently lower than that of electricity, The high energy efficiency of heat pumps makes them a renewable option Very competitive in terms of costs of definitive energy consumed, because they need less energy to offer the same amount of heat.
The The initial investment to install a heat pump is higher than that of a gas or diesel boilerBut energy saving During its useful life you can abolish the difference in relatively short times and save gei emissions and environmental damage is still an incentive to make these changes.
Renewable energy to produce electricity
Europe is not a gas or oil producer, a fact that implies that energy prices are higher than the prices of producing countries, which directly influence the competitiveness of the economy. The DMassive spleen of renewable electricity generation It makes it possible to lower electricity prices.
The next logical step would be to use that cheapest electricity in sectors such as transport, industry and buildings using electric vehicles, heat pumps for the air conditioning of buildings or transforming Productive processes that consume fossil fuels in the industry.
Appa Renewable has published the report “The moment of electrification” in which the electrification increases as A more efficient and more economical alternative against traditional solutions. An electrified house makes it possible to lower the energy costs by 64%, which corresponds to € 1,433 per year. The annual costs of the electric vehicle are between 3.8 and 5.8 times lower than one of the gasoline, which means that a tourism in Spain will save between 920 and € 1,300 per year in energy costs.
The high efficiency of heat pumps makes them the most competitive option for air conditioning in terms of the final energy costs consumed, because they need less energy to offer the same amount of heat. Install A heat pump that replaces a natural gas boiler It can mean a saving of a maximum of € 380 per year in energy. Electrification is an opportunity to attract new industries, such as data processing centers and other electro -intensive industries.
To be possible electrification, it is necessary to promote:
- A tax based on the principle of “who pollutes pays”Eliminating taxes of the electrical invoice such as the special electricity tax, and the tax on the value of the production of electric current (IVPEE) of 7%, because they discourage the development of new projects Renewable.
- Tax disaggerts in the IRPF and in corporation tax to distract investments in electrification.
- Electric networks that facilitate connection From new electricity requirements, priority to strategic points such as ports, airports, logistics nodes and industrial poles.