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Electricity too expensive but remains the No. 1 source of heating for the French
PARIS - More than 60% of French people find electricity too expensive for heating but it remains the safest mode for 45% of them, according to a survey by the environmental association Via sèva with the support of the Environment and Energy Management Agency (Ademe).
Gas seduces 43% of those questioned for its price but this source of energy for heating scares 40%, according to the survey released on Wednesday.
While criticizing the high price of their heating, nearly a third of French people are unable to quote the amount of their bill and nearly one in two respondents do not know that energy prices rose by 12% between August 2010 and August 2011 according to INSEE figures.
For the future, the French largely favor solar energy (78%) ahead of geothermal energy (54%) and the recovery of waste to make heat (49%).
On the other hand, when asked about heating networks, seven out of ten French people do not know what it is. It is true that this mode of heating, which resembles central heating on a city scale, currently concerns only 6% of the population, compared to more than 50% in the Nordic countries.
These heating networks use renewable energies (geothermal, waste recovery, wood) which represent 31% of the energy mix used. The government wants to increase this share to 50% by 2020.
The former Minister of Ecology Jean-Louis Borloo had set him the objective of supplying the equivalent of 6 million homes by heating networks by 2020 against 2 million currently.
The survey was carried out by the MV2 institute for the Via sèva association with the support of Ademe between October 17 and 31, 2011 with a representative sample of 1.000 people in urban areas of more than 30.000 inhabitants.
The Via sèva association campaigns for renewable energies.
(© AFP / November 29 2011 15h43)
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