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I don't use any AC at all, true. But would you say that explains triple the usage? New England isn't exactly in the desert.


Electric heating and cooling (instead of gas, which while still energy doesn’t go in the same bucket) and probably a larger house.

His usage is high by the standards of the region, so it probably is also something like an electric car or crypto mining.

(For what it’s worth, a swamp is far harder to cool than a desert - five of the top six states in the US by energy usage are on the Gulf coast. The average Floridian household uses ~13700 kWh/year whereas New Mexico is ~8000 kWh/year. On the other hand, the household average in Canada is higher than in the US, so…)




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