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In Pittsburgh, my summertime natural gas bill is about $25 - That's with a gas stove, gas, water heater, and gas dryer. Of that, $14.50 is just the cost to be h
by dgacmu 3y ago
In Pittsburgh, my summertime natural gas bill is about $25 - That's with a gas stove, gas, water heater, and gas dryer. Of that, $14.50 is just the cost to be hooked up to gas. IOW, the connection fee is substantially higher than the cost of the energy I use to cook.
(My winter time bill is much higher; we heat the house with a gas boiler.)
But there's $174/year of savings available if we went all-electric. Which we won't do any time soon, alas.
- Alupis 3y agoYou won't be saving with eclectic though - since in majority of the US electric is more expensive per unit of power than natural gas. There's really no reality where you save $14.50 per month by switching to full electric. Rather, your electric bill will skyrocket.
- dgacmu 3y agoIt's more expensive per unit power but heat pumps are more efficient than natural gas boilers. I can't easily retrofit, but a very high SEER heat pump comes out to a similar annual cost as my existing 96% efficient natural gas boiler. But only a very high efficiency one; a middle of the road heat pump loses, partly because I have a very high efficiency condensing boiler and partly because PA has fairly affordable gas rates.