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Curious, what is your monthly electricity bill during the winter?Combo of in-floor heating cables and panel ovens on ground floor, and panel ovens on first floor. Well insulated house built in 2000 just after new building regulations came into power means that I can make do with 3x2000w for entire first floor of 100sqm. Norway has cheap-ish electricity from hydropower, so reasonably economical way of heating. And a woodburning fireplace that is great when a bit chilly, like later today when it`s supposed to be -9°
January is peak cold and this year was NOK 4300, or around USD 400. Note that the price of electricity increased som 8-10x over normal the last 6-18 months (some periods as high as NOK 10/kWh), so that includes a state sponsored rebate. On average the last years the January bill has been around NOK 2000-3000, or USD 190-280.
I'll get a little more specific than Ryanosaur, having lived in that area (the Northern Marianas Islands) for around 17 years :
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Dutchies love their Hifi - that's what I've gathered from scouring facebook groups, 2nd hand marketplace websites and this forum right here I was born and raised in Bulgaria but now live in Deventer, Netherlands.
I was born and raised in Bulgaria but now live in Deventer, Netherlands.
What's a "panel oven" ?
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Ah, so it's simply a small narrow electric heater?
Thanks, I just never heard the term before.
A ubiqutous feature here in Norway, they come in many sizes and wattages. Most modern ones have wifi integrated, for heat planning or serious smarthome integration.
Thanks again. Electric heat isn't very popular in the US due to it's high cost in comparison to options like natural or lp gas, fuel oil, wood, etc.
When my father (He owned small, family Plumbing, Heating & AC company) built our house in 1964 he built in base board radiant heat (from hot water, surrounding each room with pipes at the base board level that have fins & a cover which directs the air via convection, from the floor, across the fins & out into the rooms. the only thing electric about this for both floors)& a boiler (which today runs on natural gas) and a small circulation pump.
No blowing fans, the temperature is very homogenized, is very even no matter where you stand & is extremely efficient.
The AC system (a 100% separate system pushes air across the ceiling from vents in top pf the wall or the edges of the ceiling, causing it to homogenize very well when it hits the other side & is ricocheting back & downward, making for a very nice, quieter & not blowing hard, efficient AC system.
Only in Europe have I seen systems that were as quiet, innocuous & efficient (and that has only been in modern times.
In 1965 (when our home was finished, that was most, quiet & non blowing system that I had ever seen.
From 1959- 1999, I made 9 extended trips to Europe with my mother, as I was only 2 in 1959: (France, Belgium, Germany, Austria [Salzburg, my & my mother's birth place, staying with my grandparents], Italy, the Former Yugoslavia and other places in Europe), so, being the son of a contractor, I observed Europe's evolution of these system's builds.
Graz, Austria is where I got my first taste of higher end Audio. From a family friend that lived there but had lived in Charleston, SC (where he & his wife were friends of my family & sometimes "baby" sat me before they moved back to Austria.
I was born along the mountains of Austria & raised more along the creeks & rivers of the Low Country of South Carolina, but also raised for large parts of my life every few years, in Austria.
And now I am married to a fellow traveling women, whom I met in Saipan, (Oceana). She is not originally from there, Europe or North America
The fact that I speak English & German did not help me with her at all.
It must be that I am just a charming Southern Gentleman that was born in Austria, which my trips home to my born land rubbed of on me & made me even more charming.
Just don't ask her about that, because she will gently tell you that is a pant load.
Where are you from looks like a Dutch name
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Are you able to provide an estimate of the cost of electricity per kwh?
In Australia it varies anywhere between about 20 and 30 AUD cents per kWh. So, just for purposes of getting the maths right, if you use a modest 10 kWh a day, that is perhaps 3 dollars.
Naturally, supply charges are on top of that and do not vary with consumption - about a dollar a day.
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Je vermoeden is juist.
Welkom Kees.
Last month Oct 10 to Nov 8 (30 days) I used 528kWh's for a total cost of 104.21
A very lite usage month for heat or AC here in Central Fl
Of course there are taxes, services fees and all the rest in that, I can't seem to find a breakdown right now.
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Thankyou. Despite being tired, I can do some rough calculations. Just for fun, take off a buck a day for that stuff. $74 for 528 kWh usage.
Correct me if I am wrong, but that is about
Now try 30 plus cents, from a country with some of the most abundant coal and uranium reserves on the planet.
My head shrinks.
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They are called norwegian radiators in my country.
BTW, I'm from Bosnia.
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