I’ve been waiting a couple weeks for my gas furnace to be repaired (everything’s slow in Canada these days) and ended up buying a couple similar little electric heaters since winter’s pretty much here.

I’ve got no dog in the Euro energy debates, but I can say that anecdotally it’s been fine staying warm with electric heat in the interim. Obviously having a single centrally controlled thermostat is preferable, but it is really a vanishingly negligible task to flip heater a switch on or off.