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Aug 27, 2023 · Clearly, fuel oil is very expensive (and it is highly polluting; see the June Glebe Report article on the GHG outputs of various fuels and the impact of GHGs). Natural gas is the most common fuel for heating in Ontario because it has the least expensive direct cost.
Oct 13, 2021 · The average retail price of furnace oil in Canada hit $1.33 per litre in early October, compared to 86 cents a litre and $1.14 a litre during the same period in 2020 and 2019, respectively,...
Dec 20, 2023 · The average domestic heating oil price in Canada reached about 902 Canadian dollars per 1,000 liters in April 2020. Drops in prices over early 2020 is likely due to the coronavirus...
- Introduction – Heating Cost Comparison
- Comparing “Heat Price” Is More Accurate Than Fuel Price
- Table of “Heat Prices” For The Us
- Conversion from Kwh to BTU – A Note on Units of Energy
- Us Heating Cost Comparison
- UK Heating Cost Comparison
- Oil Heat WS Electric Heat – Which Is Better and by How Much
- Natural Gas Heat vs Electric Heat – Which Is Better and by How Much
- Heat Pumps Are More Efficient Than All of The Above Technologies
- Do Heat Pumps Work in Winter?
[Update: Dec 21st 2023. We have updated the US heating cost chart using 2023 prices and device efficiencies] This is the third post in our Beginner’s Guide to Heating Bills, it follows average heating bills and heating fuel use. In this post, we will compare heating prices for different fuel sources. The results of our analysis are below. You can s...
When a boiler or furnace is working it turns fuel into usable heat. Because this occurs at varying efficiencies the price of usable heat can be very different than the price of fuel. In this post we are going to compare the cost of oil heat, gas heat, electric heat and wood heat in the US and UK. In the end, we find that electric heating is expensi...
For people interested in the underlying data we used EIA.gov for energy densities in 2023 and costs and a variety of sources for efficiencies. EIA doesn’t seem to track the cost of seasoned wood so we pulled that from a different resource. For more information, use the following links: EIA heating oil prices EIA natural gas prices
We use both units of BTU and kWh. It’s confusing to use two units. Why do we do it? That’s because different devices, countries and utilities prefer different measurements. They are both units of energy or heat energy. To convert the two, use this table. In words, 1 kWh is 3412 BTU, and 1 BTU is 0.000293 kWh. The kilowatt hour (kWh) is a unit of en...
In the image at the top of this post we compared the typical cost of heat for different fuels based on average prices and typical conversion efficiency. The units are $/million British Thermal Units (BTU), which as an Australian, living in the UK, looking across the pond, I find very strange.
In the UK electric heating is the far more expensive by a big margin. For this comparison we’ll use the default units of pence/kWh of usable heat. Heating your home with standard electric heaters is almost three times as expensive as using heat from a natural gas boiler. Electric heat is the most expensive type of heating again. This reality is oft...
Oil heat is slightly more expensive than electric heat in the US. Many people ask about this specific match up. When oil-powered furnaces get old, homeowners want to replace them. So naturally they want to know if the replacement could be electric. They have a lot of choices now. Switching to electricity is certainly among them. In the US, switchin...
Natural gas heat is much cheaper than electric heat in the US. The annual cost of natural gas heat is only $9.2 per million BTU compared to electric heat of $34.9 per million BTU. That means natural gas heat is less than 30%-40% the cost of electric heat. The reason is because natural gas furnaces pound for pound are more efficient in generating he...
In these statistics, often overlooked are heat pumps. I suspect this is because heat pumps are not so widely adopted. In fact, there is a misconception that heat pumps don’t work in cold climates, where people are most worried about the cold, dead of winter. The efficiency of a heat pump depends on the difference of temperatures between the outside...
In the deepest of winter, the difference can be between near 0 Fahrenheit outside and ambient 68 Fahrenheit inside. The heat pump will absorb heat from the outside and bring it inside. When its so cold, there’s less heat to be absorbed. Of course, anyone who knows basic thermodynamics and statistical mechanics knows that above absolute zero, even i...
Heating Oil increased 0.12 USD/GAL or 4.95% since the beginning of 2024, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity. Heating oil - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on July of 2024.
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How much does heating oil cost in Canada?
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What are the cost components of a heating oil price?
Oct 13, 2023 · The main cost components of the retail heating oil price for residential consumers are the: Cost of crude oil for refiners. Cost for refiners to produce heating oil. Costs to market, distribute, and deliver heating oil to consumers.
