Winter and renewable energies: are they contradictory?

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Common fan heaters use around one kilowatt per hour on the low heat setting, and this value doubles on the higher heat settings. For comparison: you want to heat the same single-family home with electricity instead of gas. To do this, a total of four fan heaters are installed in the house and, with average heating behavior, 15,330 kilowatt hours of electricity are consumed per year. Assuming that the heating period lasts from October to April, heating is on for 14 hours a day and four fan heaters are operated at an average output of 1,500 watts each, heating costs of 7,350 euros arise at current electricity prices - not including hot water preparation.

What do we learn from this?
Heating with electricity instead of gas is therefore significantly netherlands consumer email list more expensive and also carries a high risk of burns and fire. It is therefore better to heat economically and thus conserve resources than to heat with electricity.

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Ellen Szczepaniak is an experienced project manager with a focus on consulting companies in the energy industry. In her projects, she has gained experience as a requirements engineer and scrum master in an agile environment as well as an interaction room coach and management consultant in classic projects. She is particularly distinguished by her structured and analytical approach as well as her expertise in the context of the energy industry and electromobility.