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

    • waigl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I get the joke, but in contrast to heating, you can easily just… not run demanding games while the electricity is insanely expensive for a day.

      • ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
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        10 months ago

        It would literally not matter since it all ends up as heat in the end which is what you’re looking for anyway

        Minus 5 watts on the three fans or something

  • qyron@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Ouch.

    Meanwhile, in Portugal, my peak energy price will be around €.10, with the minimum at around €.06

    To what degree is your house insulated already?

    • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      -40 is eye buggingly cold. You could have a styrofoam house and I would still worry about being cold in it, plus y’know, the giant fire hazard.

      • qyron@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Saves a pretty penny on refrigerating stuff but makes for a hard time to have a decent night of sleep.

        And your remark on styrofoam hits hard with me.

        I have an old house, nearly 100 years old, with a very poor score in thermal efficiency, that really needs some improvement but the idea of glueing highly combustible materials to the walls does not go well with me.

  • MaxHardwood@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 months ago

    How are you using 21kWh/day heating a small home? Do you have any insulation at all?

    • schnokobaer@lemmy.mlEnglish
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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.