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Electric heat costs way less than reports say, new data suggests (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] sonori@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

Basically a US agency tries to forecast how much the average american will spend on various utilities over the winter broken down by all gas appliances and heat, all electric appliances and heat, all fuel oil heating, etc. Thr just of the article is that it doesn’t, but probably should, differentiate between resistive heating and heat pumps, and since most modern heat pumps give you three to four times the heat per watt that kind of makes a big difference.

It also predicts your utility bill for a given tech if you use a given type of energy, not your energy useage. Ergo your fridge and lights are counted in that perdiction if you use electric but not if you use gas. Potentally useful info if used as a forecast for what you have, but not intended to compare apples to apples.