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You were close enough the first time. For US households, annualized, 1 kilowatt of electrical demand is about right. The rest of it is fuel-based heating (natural gas stoves/furnaces/water heaters, some oil/wood/coal based heaters.)

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3

10766 kWh per year is ~1.2 kW continuous.




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