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It's not that much power, it's simply the normal home needs: being a new home it's ALL electric, heating/cooling, cooking, hot water, ... if you have a classic home where for instance heating/cooling is not needed of course the story SEEMS different until you do a bit of conversion: - 1 standard m³ CH₄ is ~10.36kWh - LPG in standard m³ is ~12.80kWh in kg ~10.87kWh - 1kg of pellets ~4-5 kWh - 1 liter of heating oil (i…
But most of the heating is the space heating, and heat pumps have way over 100% efficiency while gas burning is <100%
In the coldest part of the winter (-25℃ to -3℃) sometimes I need 3kW just for heating. And even if not much used I also have to recharge my car witch eat around 60-70kWh/week.
If you go northern, for instance when I was in south Sweden the home ALONE, witch was not super-new but still relatively new and well insulated, eat around 60kWh/day...
Sure, from late May to September from the grid I consume VERY little, but as I said I live all the year, being unable to hibernate like bears...