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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    10 months 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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      10 months ago

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

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        10 months ago

        It’s an easy conversion - 1 kWh is equal to 3412 Btus. In Germany, both electricity and natural gas are charged in kWh. I know a fair bit about energy measurement if you have any questions.

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          10 months ago

          This is fascinating to me. How does it factor efficiency, since gas needs to be burned?

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            10 months ago

            It does not factor efficiency at all.

            The bill does not care about efficiency.