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by gpuhacker 1166 days ago
I live in the Netherlands. My own gas usage was 25% lower in 2022 compared to the average over 2019-2021. We didn't do anything drastic to reduce gas usage. The first 3 months of 2023 were somewhat colder with gas usage is much closer to Spring 2021 and nowhere near as low as Spring 2022. I wonder how accurate the model used in this article is. The article isn't very clear on what kind of temperature values are used as input to this model. Is it daily mean? Hourly? I can imagine that you want to somehow factor in the diurnal cycle which would be obscured by daily means.
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> I wonder how accurate the model used in this article is

Our own statistics agency agrees with them: 25% lower gas usage by housholds of which 10% can be attributed to warmer weather. The rest is savings.

https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2023/07/gasverbruik-nederlan...