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A water heater heats up water in your home to provide you with hot water for your daily needs. Electric water heaters are typically running for 3 hours a day to heat water, newer more efficient models may run for only half the time during each day. A typical water heater will use around 4000 watts.

Space heaters are portable electric devices used for heating up a single room or an area of the house. Convection space heaters heat up a room by heating up the air, most common convection space heaters will use around 1500 watts.