10 cents per kilowatt ???? Don't know where you live but our electricity just went to 37 cents per kilowatt residential. Add 7% tax if that's a commercial campground meter.
You guys on the east coast don’t know how good you have it! $0.1 per kW-hr is a bargain! In California, they charge a premium and depending on your rate plan and the time of day, it ranges from a low of $0.32 to a high of $.52 per kW-hr. So, we would pay 3-5 times what you calculated if the timing and weather were equal. Here is a suggestion to lower the cost of heating an RV during the winter. Thermostats on space heaters are very imprecise. Consider purchasing a thermally controlled outlet. Here is one from Amazon:
It will turn power on when the temp drops below 38 deg. F. You can place it near where you want it to be rather than it just being where the heater is. You can also use a heat lamp or a parabolic radiant heater instead of a space heater with a fan if you know where you want to direct the heat. I’ve had good luck with both but it’s probably cheaper to winterize your rig if you live in a really cold area which could end up causing your heater to turn on 24 hours per day if during a prolonged period of sun zero temps. Good luck!
Very good. Now you should compare electric heating to propane heating, not just purely the cost of propane but the pros and cons of both heating methods.
I’m currently working on a comparison of heat pumps vs resistive heating costs. Once I'm done that I can circle back and include the costs of propane heating as well.
10 cents per kilowatt ???? Don't know where you live but our electricity just went to 37 cents per kilowatt residential. Add 7% tax if that's a commercial campground meter.
I’m in Maryland and it’s 15 cents per kWh. However, there’s still a number of states where the cost is around 10 cents per kWh.
Nebraska = 9.35 cents/kWh.
North Dakota = 9.91 cents/kWh.
Wyoming = 10.28 cents/kWh.
Washington = 10.48 cents/kWh.
Idaho = 10.58 cents/kWh.
You guys on the east coast don’t know how good you have it! $0.1 per kW-hr is a bargain! In California, they charge a premium and depending on your rate plan and the time of day, it ranges from a low of $0.32 to a high of $.52 per kW-hr. So, we would pay 3-5 times what you calculated if the timing and weather were equal. Here is a suggestion to lower the cost of heating an RV during the winter. Thermostats on space heaters are very imprecise. Consider purchasing a thermally controlled outlet. Here is one from Amazon:
HEATIT ET-24 Freeze Thermostatically Controlled Outlet https://a.co/d/ieTjj1C
It will turn power on when the temp drops below 38 deg. F. You can place it near where you want it to be rather than it just being where the heater is. You can also use a heat lamp or a parabolic radiant heater instead of a space heater with a fan if you know where you want to direct the heat. I’ve had good luck with both but it’s probably cheaper to winterize your rig if you live in a really cold area which could end up causing your heater to turn on 24 hours per day if during a prolonged period of sun zero temps. Good luck!
Very good. Now you should compare electric heating to propane heating, not just purely the cost of propane but the pros and cons of both heating methods.
I’m currently working on a comparison of heat pumps vs resistive heating costs. Once I'm done that I can circle back and include the costs of propane heating as well.