with the report “Household energy consumption in 2018” The Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported that up to 45.4% of solid fuels, such as coal and firewood, as well as biomass, lignite and coke, were used to heat rooms. families.
Second place was grid heat (40.4%), followed by natural gas (14%), electricity (5.1%), which in Poland is largely obtained from coal, and liquid gas (0.1%). 49%) and fuel oil (0.45%). The share of heat pumps was only 0.28%, but only 0.15%. the crates were used as the main source of heating. At the same time, the average age of the devices ranged from 5 to 12 years, although in the case of solid fuel stoves it was as much as 22 years.
The light in the tunnel became, among other GUS report “Energy from renewable sources in 2020”, which indicated that in 2016-2020 the share of energy from renewable sources in total primary energy production increased by 13.76 percent. to 21.59% and domestic consumption increased by 45.36%. Another good sign was the fact that, according to data from the Polish Organization of Heat Pump Technology, already in 2020 the heat pump market grew by 108%. for air pumps. In the first half of 2022, sales increased by 131%. compared to the first half of 2021. As of June 2022, the share of all types of heat pumps in “Clean Air” program applications reached 60%.
