Austria can only cover the need for oil and natural gas to a small extent. In the previous year it was six percent in oil and 6.3 with gas, as new data from the Austria geosphere demonstrated. The level of self -supply has fallen further compared to 2023.
At that time it was 8.5 for oil and seven percent in natural gas. Last year there were five finds in Austria in Austria. Domestic financing has decreased somewhat compared to 2023. In the case of oil, the production quantity fell by 0.3 percent to 476,000 tons, for natural gas the financing quantity fell by 1.6 percent to 537 million normal cubic meters.
At least 1.3 million oil and gas heaters in operation
According to the latest survey from Statistics Austria, 1.3 million fossil oil and gas heaters are still the most important heating system in Austria. Most gas heaters are therefore available in Vienna. There is also the majority of heat production for households with district heating (59 percent) with natural gas. According to the Austrian Biomass Association, the fall in gas heating was recently only three percent. The number of oil boilers, on the other hand, halved in the last 20 years.
District Heating Taken
670,000 households had wooden central heating, 590,000 a heat pump in the last survey. Accordingly, the district heating connection is used the most. With around 1.33 million, this barely caught up with the oil and gas heaters. In the past 20 years, the number of district heating users in Austria has more than doubled. The majority of the district heating generated in this country is based on biomass.
Source: Krone
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