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How Sweden electrified its home heating — and what Canada could learn

April 12, 2023 – CBC – In the 1970s, three-quarters of Swedish homes were heated with oil boilers. Today, electric-powered heat pumps have all but replaced oil in single-family homes (most multi-family homes rely on district heating).

So how did that happen? And are there lessons for Canada’s transition away from fossil heating?

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