What are you talking about? I live in Norway, much further north. We all use electric heating. My highest power usage this December was 41kWh in a day. Less tha

What are you talking about? I live in Norway, much further north. We all use electric heating. My highest power usage this December was 41kWh in a day. Less than 2kW continuous usage. Yesterday was 25kWh. Yes, we have a heat pump. If you do electric heating that’s a complete no brainer these days. It’s just plain stupid and waste of money not to convert to heat pump if you need heating at all in winter. For a country like France it makes even more sense: we don’t need air conditioning in summer here. But France can have some nasty heat waves. So you’ll get some utility in both summer and winter. And the silliest thing about this argument is that supplying 100% of the power of a household isn’t even a meaningful metric right now. The most important job of a grid storage battery these days is to flatten out the duck curve. In some years we may be talking about providing some seasonal balancing, but then the construction of a battery storage plant this size won’t be news. It’ll be an average Tuesday.