What do you pay per KWH

[Crumm]

What about an electric on demand water heater?
Or better yet the propane model?

Will any of these systems produce hot water for cheaper than $.0065 per gallon? I am currently at $.0065 per gallon and just trying to figure if there is a cheaper way. At .203 per Kwh I don't think anything electric is going to beat my boiler.

watering the lawn.

I quit watering the lawn a couple of years ago. Too much electricity to run the pump. We seem to get enough rain to keep it semi-green all summer just not as green as when we did water.

with 5 people in the house, I think the water heater is the perfect size to keep people from "camping out" in the shower....

With my current system that produces 195 gallons of hot water per hour you could camp out in the shower 24/7 and never run out. I do have one kid that likes to camp out but a quick turn of the hot water line valve seems to get him right out.

 

[DaveBen]

No way could you heat water for $.0065 per gallon with electricity. I don't see any cheaper way to heat water for you Crumm.

Dave

 

[RenoF250]

Baseline Usage $0.11559 Kwh
101-130% Baseline $0.13142 Kwh
131-200% Baseline $0.22580 Kwh

We need more nuclear power plants to lower these rates...

No only do we not have nuke plants they poke a stick in your eye with the $.40 "Nuclear Decommissioning" charge.

No 201-300% of baseline? It is a bargain - $.31304. I wnat to find the knuckle head that came up with that baseline figure and beat the crap out of him. I can't hit it in the winter with everything off for 2 weeks while we are on vacation.

My last bill came out to $.178 kW/h.

 

[JimmyDee]

Here are the numbers for you.
A kilowatt of electricity produces 3413 BTUs of heat. It will heat at 100% efficiency.
A gal of #2 fuel oil will produce 140,000 BTUs of heat minus the inefficiency of the boiler. Say it is about 80%, then you will get about 112,000 BTUs of heat from each gal of #2 fuel oil that is usable.
So it looks like it would take 32 KWH of electricity to heat the same amount of water that could be heated with a gal of #2 oil.
@10 cents a KWH, electricity would cost you $3.20.
Not sure what you are paying for oil but @ 20 cents per KWH for electricity, your oil would have to be costing $6.40 a gal for break even.
I think you need to stay with the oil.
Jim

 

[Crumm]

A gal of #2 fuel oil will produce 140,000 BTUs of heat minus the inefficiency of the boiler. Say it is about 80%,

Mine is currently at 87.25%.

@10 cents a KWH, electricity would cost you $3.20

Mine is $.203 so that is 2x your figure.

Not sure what you are paying for oil but @20 cents your oil would have to be costing $6.40 a gal for break even.

Oil I am burning right now was $3.32 a gallon so that would be almost 50% savings. As the oil goes up which it will so does the Kwh rate so I imagine we will stay around 50% cheaper with oil.

I think you need to stay with the oil.
Jim

Your numbers figured it a different way than my numbers but we both came to the same conclusion. No electric water heater for me.

for convincing me