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by Tuna-Fish 1637 days ago
The most common heating system in new separate homes are heat pumps. They can function as air conditioners when it's hot and heaters when it's cold.
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That does seem to head for electricity based heating. But a web search lead to some (admittedly 6 yrs old) graphs that have electricity being in in 3rd place after fuel based heating solutions by energy use: https://www.stat.fi/til/asen/2014/asen_2014_2015-11-20_tie_0... - and hopefully those new houses are better insulated and use proportionally much less energy than the average housing stock, eg passive houses.