This has come up in various threads about which fuel/energy to use and why. What I would like to get is:
Where you live and what does 1)electricity cost – $/kwh, 2)LP cost – $/gal and 3) natural gas or oil cost $/therm or $gal?
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In Kenai, Alaska (150 road miles south of Anchorage), Electric is $0.083/kwh and natural gas is cheap (we're on top of a gas field) at $0.38/therm. Spruce wood is free - any dead trees on borough or state land can be cut for fireweed.
Dave,
Is that a fixed rate or does it change after the first X number of kwh?
I am in the Kansas City area. But there are more than 5 different electric companies and at least 2 gas in the general area, and they all have different price structures.
Anyway my electric, winter rates (Oct - May), for electric heating (or the power company thinks that you have electric heating)
Base $6.71
1st 600 kWh $0.07
next 400 $0.0378
all additional $0.0313
The gas is a little harder to figure. They have a fixed charged, a per unit charge, plus a gas charge. Any way looking at a couple of bills this and working backwards this is what I get.
Base $10.13
$0.63 per 100 cu.ft.
Electric - .047
Oil right around a buck.
LP and Nat Gas? No Idea and too lazy to look.
I like the electric rate though.