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Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet (www.canarymedia.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

FYI that's almost 9000 watts of power to supply that thing, which is about 9 microwaves or 3 electric ovens worth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's not constant throughput though. That's absolute peak possibilities.

Editing to add:. FWIW, it also didn't increase the monthly average electrical usage at all... In fact, I believe I had a small reduction in the average... It was replacing a significantly older traditional 30 gallon electric water heater.