That massive spike of 50c/kWh at the left looks tiny compared to today even though that’s already insanely expensive

  • schnokobaer@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    That’s a perfectly normal number for any home that isn’t very new and perfectly insulated.

    My 37sqm appartment needs approximately 5000 kWh in natural gas per year, 876 kWh last December, so 28 kWh per day on average. The building is admittedly old and not perfectly insulated but it’s also not a log cabin out in the open in Finland, but instead a flat enclosed within 3 other flats in the middle of cosy, never below -8C Germany.

    21 kWh in a log cabin in Finnland actually seemed pretty low to me. It’s sort of obvious OP is using a heat pump and the cabin must really be absolutely tiny.

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      1 year ago

      Why are you measuring natural gas in kWh? How do you even measure that as such?

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        1 year ago

        Very common in countries that use the metric system (ie literally everywhere except the USA). It’s measured either in kWh or in m^3

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          1 year ago

          Cubic meters (or another similar measure of volume) is what I’d expect. It’s the conversion to an unrelated and theoretical (since it’s not actually being converted to electricity) unit that confuses me. I presume it’s to make it easier to compare electric vs gas heat, but the variable efficiency of burning gas and the existence of heat pumps ruin that.