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I don't think that heating with coal is a thing anymore. Power production is, though and that goes into electric cars or cooling buildings. Heating with electricity can be done quite efficiently via heat exchangers but is not used that often besides relatively new single-family homes.

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Depends on where you live. Poland is burning more coal than it was in the 90s, and a significant amount of that is still for home heating

The world as a whole is burning more coal in 2020 than in 1990 (and 2020 was a big downyear because of covid).

But what's more surprising is that even in per-capita terms, global coal usage has increased since 1990.

However if you change your baseline year from 1990 to 2012, then global coal usage in absolute terms has declined, and will continue to decline over the long term even if there is a bump from the 2020 depressed levels (2020 is a terrible year to benchmark against).

"Poland is burning more coal than it was in the 90s"

Not true, coal usage[1]: 1990 -> 237Mt, 2016 -> 149Mt

As a tangent, I was shocked that Poland CO2 emission per capita is lower than one of Norway [2]: Norway 9.4t (2018), Poland 8.8t (2018)

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coal/poland-coal/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

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