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I'm in region 4, normally we have around 1600KwH in the worst winter month (small house, 2 air pumps).

If prices rise 5x as is expected, we're looking at ~8000€ for a single month. (1€/KwH x 5)

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Perhaps a dumb question, but do many houses have chimneys? Would burning wood ameliorate the problem?

Mostly older houses do (< 50s), and yes, wood is the most cost effective.

This house is > 70s, doesn't have a chimney, but we're considering installing a cast-iron wood burner in the house center for this winter.

Firewood was in short supply and hard to find this winter and spring because of high power prices, imagine what will happen this coming winter with prices 5X-10X.

It's still a country with a lot of wood, finding a farmer willing to sell some even at the worst of times, are easier than any alternative.

There's sellers that are already out of stock. Firewood needs to dry for months before use, and like everything else when there's high demand there will be high prices.

https://www.aftonbladet.se/minekonomi/a/66p5LQ/ved-rusning-l...

Yeah, these are hard times, I wouldn't bet on finding wood unless you know someone.

Maybe I can flip my 3 cubic meters of really shitty pine wood for a new graphics card this winter..? Not gonna afford to run it for a while though...

You pay €1600/mo normally?! Holy crap!

No, read again, 1600 KwH energy consumption, not cost.

At 1 euro per kWh

Well, almost, the top today was 1€/KwH, the average is 0.75€.

But the consumption is only ~800KwH for August.

Yeah, regardless. I pay $0.11/kWh so I was just utterly gobsmacked at the cost of electricity in Northern Europe. And most of our electricity generation is nuclear.

Yeah, it’s horrifying and life altering for many

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