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by diggan 287 days ago
Sweden seems to have some of the highest "Electricity consumption per dwelling" (https://www.odyssee-mure.eu/publications/efficiency-by-secto...) in Europe, and sits at 10 MWh, which makes sense, it's a very cold country but with very well isolated houses in general :)

It sounds to me like you're likely an outlier here, for curiosities sake, where do you live?

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16 MWh of electricity/year isn’t really an outlier for an electrically heated (via efficient heat pumps) house in Sweden either.

Your number above probably includes apartments and houses heated using district heating, e.g. from incinerating forest industry waste products.

Germany, and these are numbers from our gas heater. But the house is almost 50 years old and not insulated to current standards (yet).

We got a heatpump this year, going to be interesting to see how this changes things.