Thanks Fernando for your kind words and sharing your interesting views on the world. I'm sure many people agree with you, but it's nice to see someone actually speak out on it. Thank you for that.
The house is not bad, it's about 150 square meters with a double parking spot on premise and a garage. That's really nice.
Here in the Netherlands we are in the middle of a transition from fossil fuels for both mobility and housing to electrically driven solutions. If you build a new house, it's not possible to get a connection to the gas net for example. Heating must be either via a pellet stove or full electic.
Which of course results in a high demand from the power. Aaaaand we slightly forgot to maintain the power grid so 15 years ago you got 3x25A main connections for free, and now you'll have to fight for 3x15A or 1x35A, otherwise you get 1x25A and that's it.
1x25A for a new house with electric heating, mechanical ventilation, electrical cooking, electrical driving, you see where it's going?
Of course we now have solar panels on about 25% of the properties so people can use all the power they want when the sun is shining, and that's the times we don't cook, we don't charge our cars and we don't need heating.
Two weeks ago, one of the operators of the electrical grid actually called upon the people to not charge their EV"s during rush hours:
https://nos.nl/artikel/2510535-netbehee ... -21-00-uur
But in my own situation, 1m3 of natural gas for heating costs about €1,50 and it will heat for about 10kWh. 10kWh of electricity will cost about €3,50. But with a CoP for a heat pump or airconditioning of about 4-6, you'll easily cross that price mark.
And what's even more interesting is a legislation that allows producers of energy by solar panels to net out their production versus their use. So on my roof I have 12x 425 = 5000wP, here it will produce about 5000kWh on a yearly base
I can then use 5000kWh of electricity per year regardless of my own production times. So during the day, I could produce 20kWh and use it all during the night. The rules allow it. The grid is my battery.
So the trick is to use all the electricity you produce, since a net production will give you only about 2ct per kWH.
5000kWh at a CoP of 4 will give you the equivalent of 20.000 kWh of heat or 2.000m3 of natural gas. I don't use that in a year. So in the end, for me as a producer, it's a win. But the grid needs to really add capacity.
It's a very strange situation, mostly the result of a very fast transition from fossil fuels to electric 'sustainable' energy and the power grid can't really handle it.
But I really like my new Passat windows, it is said to be much quieter. So I'm now only disturbed by the exhaust system rather than the down noise.