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Your source includes "Electricity for heating, hot water". Maybe this includes households using heat pumps for heating, so this could explain the difference?
by jansan 4y ago
Your source includes "Electricity for heating, hot water". Maybe this includes households using heat pumps for heating, so this could explain the difference?
- proto_lambda 4y agoNot just heat pumps, but also electric water heaters, which are standard issue for older apartment buildings (those without central hot water).
- mrguyorama 4y agoAnd also probably the single least efficient source of heat for a home. An apartment using resistive heat instead of a heat pump should not be allowed anymore.
- proto_lambda 4y agoWait, what? How could electric resistive heating with its 100% efficiency possibly be less efficient than gas or oil, which are the main alternatives in use at this point? Heat pumps have >100% efficiency, which makes them stand way out at the top, but they're an exception rather than the rule.
- mrguyorama 4y agoIf the electricity for resistive heating is coming from a combustion process, it would be more efficient to burn that substance directly in the home to produce heat directly. Otherwise a lot of heat energy is lost being converted to electricity and traveling through the power lines.