Alex321
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I did a quick look up the electricity generation mix and it looked like 40 something percent gas. It does raise the question on whether it is genuinely more green to burn gas to make electricity to then run your stove rather than heating your food with gas. Frankly I'd be surprised if the former is more efficient, though appreciate there's a cost (in energy, CO2 and money) in pumping gas round the country too. I read of efficiencies of gas turbines being 30-50% (one outlier suggested a rather implausible 80%) when driving a shaft. Don't know what the work to electricity efficiency of the dynamo is - maybe 90%?
Anyhow, so long as we're making a fair bit of out power from gas, then electric heating sounds a bit daft doesn't it?
Fair enough if your town doesn't have gas of course
The electricity generation mix is moving more towards renewables all the time. And of course, if (like us) you have solar panels o9r oher self-generation capacity, then it makes much more sense to use electricity to cook with than gas.