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Not to be technically correct, but electric heat is 100% efficient.


A heat pump can be more than 100% efficient in the sense you seem to be talking about. It transfers heat from one area to another, and can bring in more heat to a space than the energy used could produce in heat through a resistive heating element.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump





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