[ahartmetz]

Can't be everything. Electrical power is like 20-35% or so of total power used in most countries. I just checked some statistics of the Umweltbundesamt, the German ~environment protection office. The electrical fraction is suprisingly low! Though it's supposed to increase because most renewable energy production is electric.

My guess is nuclear energy, more efficient cars, better insulated houses, and less heavy industry.

[avar]

You have the cause and effect backwards. German homes are electric heated at a rate of around 5%[1], French at around 30%[2] (page 7).

As electricity prices are lowered (e.g. by state investment in nuclear) various things that use fossil fuels will shift over to electric.

1. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/heating-40-millio...

2. https://heatpumpingtechnologies.org/annex46/wp-content/uploa...

3. https://strom-report.com/electricity-prices-europe/