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by vardump 1471 days ago
60 kWh/day would not be enough to heat a modest sized house (~2000 sqft) in Lapland, even with geothermal heating.

Unless you meant 100 kWh/day, which would be doable, but I think only with geothermal.

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Given a COP of 5 for a ground source heat pump you can calculate 60/24 is 2,5kW power draw around the clock. Multiply by 5 give 12,5kW heat non stop. That is a lot of heat.

2000 sqft is 185m2 which is a mansion by my standards though :)

I don't know Lapland, but that house is significantly larger than average (97m²) for Finland [1].

Average electricity cost in Finland is €0.184/kWh.

[1] https://www.finnwards.com/living-in-finland/how-much-do-home...

2000 sqft and you call it modest?

And 60 kWh/day is still enormous.

Average sq ft for house in US is around 2500sq ft so 2000 sq ft is below median. Ok starter house but not more than that. I understand that houses in Europe are much smaller though due to low incomes and higher utility costs.

I have 2800 sq ft house and use around 30-35 kWh/day in summer. 60kWh/day is high but not outrageously high.

60 kWh/day is definitely not much in climate where temperature can go below -40F/-40C.
21900 KWh in a year is not much according to what source?