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Jan 25, 2024 · Since early 2023, through OHPA, the Government of Canada has been providing an upfront, advance payment of up to $10,000 to low-to-median-income Canadian households that use home heating oil to help them cover the cost of purchasing and installing an eligible heat pump system.
Nov 3, 2023 · Oil-heated homes in Canada can expect to spend $2,100 to $3,000 per year on heating fuel, not including the cost of the fuel charge on light fuel oil used for heating. The federal government’s fuel charge pause will save the average Atlantic Canadian household, using 1,500 litres of home heating oil, about $261 this year.
- Department of Finance Canada
Oct 19, 2022 · US consumers will face significantly higher heating costs due to a colder-than-average winter and high energy prices, according to the Energy Information Administration. Households that heat with oil or gas will experience a cost increase of 27% and 28%, respectively, compared to 2021/22.
Oct 13, 2023 · Heating oil consumers can arrange to have their heating oil tanks filled in late summer or in early fall when prices are generally lower. Heating oil dealers may offer their customers a budget plan to help even out monthly heating oil bills.
- 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...
Nov 21, 2022 · To continue providing immediate relief, our federal government is reducing Canadians’ heating bills by helping homeowners cover up-front costs in federal grants up to $5,000 to replace their oil heating systems with brand new heat pumps.
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Sep 24, 2023 · Some forecasts suggest that oil prices could soon reach at least $100 US per barrel — putting even more pressure on Canadian consumers coping with high inflation.
