It’s not weird, it’s math. Just using your numbers we should expect a drop in electricity use, since 3.4% drop in electric resistance homes free up enough energy to heat 10.2% of homes if heat pumps are 3x more efficient. Since only 4.5% use heat pumps, that means some switched to gas/oil and overall electric use decreased quite a bit. You can do math on the effect on EVs, but it’s smaller than most people think. Add in efficiency in literally everything else, climate change making winters more mild, and solar on homes/buildings/balconies that isn’t even counted here, and you’ll see a drop. Even heat pumps used for cooling, which not everyone has, won’t add much at all for a few weeks of use. I live in sunny western US and still use 10x energy to heat vs cool my home. Not to mention a generational energy crisis. We haven’t even addressed industrial energy use, but that’s also more efficient and likely some offshoring of very intensive industries is occuring.
It’s not weird, it’s math. Just using your numbers we should expect a drop in electricity use, since 3.4% drop in electric resistance homes free up enough energy to heat 10.2% of homes if heat pumps are 3x more efficient. Since only 4.5% use heat pumps, that means some switched to gas/oil and overall electric use decreased quite a bit. You can do math on the effect on EVs, but it’s smaller than most people think. Add in efficiency in literally everything else, climate change making winters more mild, and solar on homes/buildings/balconies that isn’t even counted here, and you’ll see a drop. Even heat pumps used for cooling, which not everyone has, won’t add much at all for a few weeks of use. I live in sunny western US and still use 10x energy to heat vs cool my home. Not to mention a generational energy crisis. We haven’t even addressed industrial energy use, but that’s also more efficient and likely some offshoring of very intensive industries is occuring.