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Much more expensive in the US. Especially in areas that use resistive heating in the winter.
by cbruns 10mo ago
Much more expensive in the US. Especially in areas that use resistive heating in the winter.
- Muromec 10mo agoHow bad it is exactly? Resistive heating sounds cursed, when the houses are (I guess) not the fancy European newbuild. I'm looking at something like 1000 kWh on a heat pump a year in a mild weather, where kWh is around 0.30 eurocents. I don't however own the pump, energy company leases it to me, so I pay about 150 a month the whole year (cold months are about 4 GJ, but it totals to 18-ish in a year). Then there is another 10-30 a month for normal in-house electricity consumption. When I had actual district heating (powered by gas, when the gas was expensive af) and the house was "leakier", I looked at something like 50ish GJ a year and paid close to 350.
- nephihaha 10mo agoI live in Scotland. It costs me a lot more than the equivalent of thirty Euros. Nearly double that. I couldn't reduce my electricity bill much more if I tried. I don't watch TV, use my oven and don't heat my home most of the year (I haven't once this winter so far, even though I am cold some of the time.)