Australia’s east coast faces a gas supply crisis, but converting gas heaters and water heaters to electricity could hold the best hope of averting shortfalls.
NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania within the next few years.
However, this scenario happens to assume lots of households and businesses will switch out of gas appliances and into electric. By 2027 it assumes we’ve reduced gas consumption by 32 petajoules through electrification and by 2030 we’ve saved 62 petajoules. In Queensland and Western Australia this is true, but they aren’t the states facing the gas supply shortfall. In 2021, across Victoria, NSW, SA and Tasmania the residential sector roughly consumed about 150 petajoules of gas. Power generation consumed about 62 petajoules and the industrial sector consumed about the same as the residential sector.
The problem is the bulk of this gas is used either as a feedstock to make chemicals or to produce heat and steam at high temperatures. Unfortunately, the high-temperature heat they need can’t be produced effectively byThat’s why you as the householder is so important. Householders who use gas for heating their home and their water can relatively easily substitute gas appliances with far more energy-efficient heat pump appliances .
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