We had some frost last night. My heat pump automatically shut off and my propane heat from the boiler with a hot water to air exchanger kicked in. My electricity cost ( converted to US currency) is 9 cents per kwhr.) My boiler is propane fired. Natural gas does not make it to our community. Propane is $1.65 per gallon, all in, including the delivery and “ stoopid” carbon tax. What sort of energy costs are you seeing this fall?
Home Heating Costs
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We pay $.12 per kWh. The heat pump runs until its 32*F then it switches to the propane furnace. Our power bill doesn’t seem to fluctuate much regardless of what’s running either. Not sure what propane costs now, but I filled up my 1000 gallon tank at $.89 a gallon last Spring. I try to burn wood when it’s “cold cold” and convenient to do so. The wood is free minus my time and gas, but I find it therapeutic too.
gathermewool
Site Donor 2023
$0.2076/kW-hr
Average cost so far this year, including delivery.
Average cost so far this year, including delivery.
| kWh | $$$ | $/kWh | Ave Temp | |
| January | 2003 | $409.05 | 0.2042 | 32 |
| February | 1659 | $346.96 | 0.2091 | 34 |
| March | 1501 | $312.48 | 0.2082 | 41 |
| April | 1629 | $337.11 | 0.2069 | 44 |
| May | 1156 | $248.92 | 0.2153 | 56 |
| June | 1560 | $327.73 | 0.2101 | 68 |
| July | 1564 | $338.01 | 0.2161 | 75 |
| August | 1483 | $282.49 | 0.1905 | 72 |
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Wow you have electric heat up in New England?
That 2000 kwh electric consumption is insane.
Last January it was 53 degrees, and I used 41 units of Natural Gas for a total of $20.
That same month we used 476kwh of electricity for a cost of $32.89.
That 2000 kwh electric consumption is insane.
Last January it was 53 degrees, and I used 41 units of Natural Gas for a total of $20.
That same month we used 476kwh of electricity for a cost of $32.89.
gathermewool
Site Donor 2023
It's better than our first January in the house, when we burned through 3314 kWh!!! We were used to our previous condo and its high-efficiency gas furnace. We kept the WHOLE house at around 65-70F. Boy was that a wakeup call!
Since then, we tend keep the master bedroom at 65-70F all day (I've got two small children and SAH mom), but maintain the rest of the house at 55F +/- what feels comfortable at the time, depending on humidity etc. I've posted this in the past and people seemed to think I was crazy for doing this.
We do have a wood stove in the basement that we haven't used yet. Maybe this year we'll test out a cord of wood to compare overall heating costs.
When we have more money saved, we'll also be installing mini-splits, as well as solar when we replace our roof in another 5 or so years.
OVERKILL
$100 Site Donor 2021
My century old brick place has no exterior wall insulation and needs new windows. We heat with gas, I cannot even imagine the cost to do it with electric. We are on equal billing, so it's $148/month which includes just using gas for the hot water during the summer. This is what the last 12 months looked like:
This thread had me curious so I totaled up my natural gas cost from January until now. $829. This is for a family of 6 in a 2800sq/ft home with hot water baseboard heat, gas hot water, gas clothes dryer and stove. My lowest bill this summer was $31/mo. My highest was $146. My electric bills are always around $100-130/mo.
Last 12 month average for electricity is $111/month at .11 kwh High of 170 low of 71 (high in summer months)
Natural gas average is $43/month high of 80 low of 18 (high in winter months)
Water is $45/month and most of that is sewer fees.
3000 sq ft 2nd floor a heat pump (16 seer) first floor gas furnace (80% efficiency) and A/C (14 seer)
Gas cooking, natural gas grill and gas tankless hot water. What they don't tell you about tankless hot water is that unless you clean the unit yourself each year and pay someone to do it the cost far outweighs any savings on a tank less unit. I do it myself. Gas is cheap here and does not vary between summer and winter months cost per ccu
Natural gas average is $43/month high of 80 low of 18 (high in winter months)
Water is $45/month and most of that is sewer fees.
3000 sq ft 2nd floor a heat pump (16 seer) first floor gas furnace (80% efficiency) and A/C (14 seer)
Gas cooking, natural gas grill and gas tankless hot water. What they don't tell you about tankless hot water is that unless you clean the unit yourself each year and pay someone to do it the cost far outweighs any savings on a tank less unit. I do it myself. Gas is cheap here and does not vary between summer and winter months cost per ccu
Propane/electric resistance heat. Propane = $1.12 /gallon. Heating bill is about $200/month..including resistance electrici
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Nick1994
$100 site donor 2024
We have a Time of Use plan, here's the pricing:
November-April:
5am-9am and 5pm-9pm 9.51 cents per kWh
All other times 6.91 cents per kWh
May, June, September, October:
2pm-8pm: 20.94 cents per kWh
All other times 7.27 cents per kWh
July & August:
2pm-8pm: 24.09 cents per kWh
All other times 7.3 cents per kWh
We only have a heat pump. Here's the last year's electric usage for a 1,400 square foot home. 73 degrees year round.
November-April:
5am-9am and 5pm-9pm 9.51 cents per kWh
All other times 6.91 cents per kWh
May, June, September, October:
2pm-8pm: 20.94 cents per kWh
All other times 7.27 cents per kWh
July & August:
2pm-8pm: 24.09 cents per kWh
All other times 7.3 cents per kWh
We only have a heat pump. Here's the last year's electric usage for a 1,400 square foot home. 73 degrees year round.
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Zee09
$200 Site Donor 2023
I have several houses so I shop around. Got electric at 6.9 kwh for 3 years contract. My local utility is 9.39
but in MD. We can shop.
Propane is 87 cents now if you own your own tank. Couple years back I got it for 67...
I filled up on heating oil at the end of summer cheaply. Now its around $2 right now.
but in MD. We can shop.
Propane is 87 cents now if you own your own tank. Couple years back I got it for 67...
I filled up on heating oil at the end of summer cheaply. Now its around $2 right now.
Zee09
$200 Site Donor 2023
I can’t access our electric at the moment but we use gas for heat, hot water, cooking and occasionally the pool heater (400k btu) if I really feel like lighting my money on fire. I’m very pleased with our energy usage as we keep the house 72 all winter except the master bedroom goes to 68 at night. 4 furnaces, 3 water heaters, 2 adults, 3 young kids, occasionally the inlaws at the guest house but that’s not often so that water heater and furnace don’t account for much. Our winter therms are $0.23 and summer are $0.21
Used 1,124kwh last month which cost $148.28, but then they tack on a customer charge, sales tax, and a utility receipt tax so my electricity was $175.52. We used 31 therms of gas for a total of $39.85.
$3.15 per gallon of Propane delivered. We use about 3 gallons a day in winter.
Current Gas Bill is $32.50. 18 Therms of Natural Gas (Water Heater, Range, and Dryer) $1.28 a therm, all in.
Peak Month last winter was 158 Therms of Natural Gas (Forced Air Furnace, Water Heater, Range, and Dryer). Pretty consistent 16-20 therms non-heating. That was $0.68 a therm, all in.
893 Therms of Natural Gas for the last 12 Months, with about 700 therms being heating. Average for the year was $0.86 a therm, all in. ($768 for the year)
2650 Sq Foot Two Story Wood Frame home in Minnesota with a family of four. Draw your own conclusions about the weather...
Peak Month last winter was 158 Therms of Natural Gas (Forced Air Furnace, Water Heater, Range, and Dryer). Pretty consistent 16-20 therms non-heating. That was $0.68 a therm, all in.
893 Therms of Natural Gas for the last 12 Months, with about 700 therms being heating. Average for the year was $0.86 a therm, all in. ($768 for the year)
2650 Sq Foot Two Story Wood Frame home in Minnesota with a family of four. Draw your own conclusions about the weather...
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A Therm is 100,000 BTU. Up in Canada we measure gas in Gigajoules. A gigajoule is about 950,000 BTU. Therefor a Gigajoule is about 9.5 Therms or for remembering, about 10 Therms. Joules and Watts are related. On Watt is a joule per second. A 60 watt bulb consumes one joule per second of energy.
Therefore 1.2 Gigawatts like in the movie Back To The Future would mean using 1.2 gigajoules per second . Here is is a reference.
Enjoy.
Note: I've edited this note to correct it based on MNgopher's correction. Thanks.
Therefore 1.2 Gigawatts like in the movie Back To The Future would mean using 1.2 gigajoules per second . Here is is a reference.
Enjoy.
Note: I've edited this note to correct it based on MNgopher's correction. Thanks.
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A Therm is 100,000 BTU's.
A Gigajoule is roughly 950,000 BTU's.
Your conversion factor is right, but the quantities were off...
A Gigajoule is roughly 950,000 BTU's.
Your conversion factor is right, but the quantities were off...
FWIW, at 700 therms last year for heating converted to electricity would have been just shy of $2200, or 3.65 times the cost of natural gas.
(700 therms = 20,510kWh *.8 (efficiency of Natural Gas unit versus Electric (best case))* 0.133 per kWh (local electric rate).
Natural gas at current pricing is a no-brainer is this area... Back around 2006 or so, that was not the case (pre-fracking boom...)
(700 therms = 20,510kWh *.8 (efficiency of Natural Gas unit versus Electric (best case))* 0.133 per kWh (local electric rate).
Natural gas at current pricing is a no-brainer is this area... Back around 2006 or so, that was not the case (pre-fracking boom...)
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