Heating Efficiency
As a heating technology, joule heating has a coefficient of performance of 1.0, meaning that every 1 watt of electrical power is converted to 1 watt of heat. However, a heat pump can have a coefficient of more than 1.0 since it also obtains heating energy from the environment. The definition of the efficiency of a heating process requires defining the boundaries of the system to be considered. When heating a building, the overall efficiency changes when considering heating effect per unit of electric energy delivered on the customer's side of the meter, compared to the efficiency considering the losses in the power plant.
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