electrical heat

[walttech]

I would like to know if you had a 1500 square foot house what size kw strips would you need. then if you ran that electric furnace for 144 hours at 90 degrees, how many kw's would you use.

[NCHeat]

Big and a lot

[motoguy128]

Too little info.

Climate/location? How well insulated is the house? Lets say average climate and average insulation, so lets say a nice even 50k BTU's. So you'd need 15kW strips. At $0.10/kwhr, that's $216 for 144 hours of run time. In comparison a 95% efficient furnace for the same runtime at $0.80/therm would be about $60. A heat pump would be around $100 to operate.

[beenthere]

Maybe 10KW. So 1440 KW in 144 hours.