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"The cheapest unit of gas is the one you do not use,” EECA chief executive Marcos Pelenur said in a piece on the NZ Herald. Europe's response to severe gas shortages after the start of the Ukraine war was focused on efficiency, flexibility and heat pumps and as New Zealand deals with its own shortage, we can learn from it.
As he said:
“Savings from heat pumps [in Europe] and reduced wastage largely offset the loss of gas supply, and drove a 6% total drop in all energy consumption, demonstrating the potential of demand-side action,” he told the Herald.
“They are very different contexts, but are similar conditions in the sense that from the Ukraine-Russia war there was a sudden gas shortage, and then they had to quickly pivot to deal with this gas crunch.
“And so specifically it was essentially heat pumps and then identifying and reducing waste.
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