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Study: half of the Romanians would like to heat their house with solar energy
The use of solar energy as main source of heating the house is in the preferences of 49% of the Romanians, who consider that thus they would contribute to the protection of the environment shos a study made in eight European countries.
The possible change to a system of heating with solar energy, indicated as ideal would mean radical transformation in a country as Romania where, according to the study mentioned, the majority of the houses are heated with gas units or they are dependent on the central heating system. Only 1% of those who answered showed that, at present, they use solar energy to heat the house and only 1% mentioned that they developed systems based on geothermal power, a press release of E.ON Romania shows.
Solar energy is indicated as ideal variant for heating the houses by the interviewed ones from other countries. The Italians and the Hungarians are the most favoured to this resource, 60% of the interviewed ones showing that they would choose without any reserve such a system of heating. The least interested by heat from the sun are the British. Only 38% would like to heat their houses on the basis of solar power, and other 36% would rather heat on the basis of natural gas.
In many European countries, wood is still used as fuel. Almost a third (31%)of the Hungarian citizens use wood to heat the houses, they being followed by the Czech (20%)and the Romanians (19%).
At the same time, 10% of the Romanians interviewed stated that they use electrical devices to heat, the share of users in Romania for this type of heating being under that of those in the UK (18%) but much over that of Italy where only 1% stated they used electrical heating devices,.
Coal and oil have a minimum role on the market for heating houses in Central and Eastern Europe which comes to contradict the common perception that the respective resources would be used in this area.
These results are part of the study ‘ Living in Europe’ where E.ON and Kantar EMNID asked almost 8,000 people from Germany, the UK, Italy, the Czech Republic, Romania, Sweden, Turkey and Hungary in December 2016.