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Comment by lm28469

It's high but it really depends on your lifestyle and appliances.

If you have a heat pump water heater and heat pump based floor heating you'll use 1/4th of the energy as the same house with resistive water/floor heating.

A house which barely passed regulation from 2010 will consume 5-10x the energy of a certified passive house.

etc.

That being said I think you have to draw the line somewhere. I'd much rather have inefficient appliances (resistive boiler/heaters) and be fully solar powered than spend 50k in heatpumps and other gimmicks that are rated for 10 years and cost a kidney in maintenance and the eventual replacement.

parent lm28469 9 months ago

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