It’s enlightening to look at personal, State, and national household energy consumption.*
The average U.S. household consumes ~22,500 kWh/yr (76.8 million Btu).
Here in California it's ~15,700 kWh/yr. To get more granular in CA: ~10.5 kWh/yr per sq ft and ~5,900 kWh/yr per household member.
For most, heating air/water accounts for much more energy use in the U.S. than cooling, so those who heat with fossil fuels would need to tally that into their household energy consumption.
This data is from 2020. Now that charging vehicles at home is becoming more common, this will tend to push home energy use up. On the flip side, heat pumps are becoming more common in homes for heating air/water, and because of their large efficiency gains this will (of itself) decrease home energy use.
*referred to as “site energy”, this includes the amount of energy that enters a home, including grid fed electricity, electricity from onsite solar panels, natural gas, propane, and fuel oil; does not include biomass (wood), coal, district steam, and solar thermal
https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/data/2020/state/pdf/State totals and intensities.pdf
The average U.S. household consumes ~22,500 kWh/yr (76.8 million Btu).
Here in California it's ~15,700 kWh/yr. To get more granular in CA: ~10.5 kWh/yr per sq ft and ~5,900 kWh/yr per household member.
For most, heating air/water accounts for much more energy use in the U.S. than cooling, so those who heat with fossil fuels would need to tally that into their household energy consumption.
This data is from 2020. Now that charging vehicles at home is becoming more common, this will tend to push home energy use up. On the flip side, heat pumps are becoming more common in homes for heating air/water, and because of their large efficiency gains this will (of itself) decrease home energy use.
*referred to as “site energy”, this includes the amount of energy that enters a home, including grid fed electricity, electricity from onsite solar panels, natural gas, propane, and fuel oil; does not include biomass (wood), coal, district steam, and solar thermal
https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/data/2020/state/pdf/State totals and intensities.pdf