"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
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"Dominic" wrote in message
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Anyone considering a conversion to electric heat now that gas is so
expensive. According to my utility, electric heat is now cheaper than gas
when using a 65% AFUE furnace. Our gas is $1.3/therm vs 6 cents/kwh for
electric.

Where do you live to get electric that cheap? In New England we are about
14¢ to 16¢.

Yes; I was also wondering where one gets electricity for 6 cents/kWh!

But I'm wondering is that is the 'total' price.

I live in Eastern Canada (in a province where we make the stuff using
hydro!) and heat electrically.
Domestically we are billed a monthly account charge of around $15.69
(Canadian) , whether we use any electricity or not. Our electricity used
cost is then 8.458 cents per kWh in addition to that. There is a discount of
1.5% on those two items, if the bill is paid on time and then 15% sales tax
is added.

Typically taking all that into account our overall electricity cost in
summer is around 11 cents/kWh; and in winter due to the higher consumption,
is now around 10 cents/kWh. this all in Can. currency which is approx 0.84
US.
So our electricity cost, in winter for example, is equivalent to about 8.4
cents US per kWh. (Roughly for UK listeners that's about four (4) new pence.
Here there are no cheap/reduced rates, as in some European (UK) countries
for electricity consumed late at night/early morning during off-peak
periods, same rate, domestically anyway, during the 24 hours.

It is understood that in some jurisdictions, such as Ontario there is a
somewhat different costing; so that although the cost of domestic
electricity consumed was, or still is? limited by government legislation, to
4.5 cents per kWh there are other charges on each customers bill to cover
the cost of 'Capital Investment'. That includes, we understand, some high
costs for their aging and needing to be replaced atomic energy electrical
generating plants!

It might be cheaper and with also concerns about environmental global
warming (Those floods and hurricanes are getting expensive eh?), for North
American utilities (Ontario, Massachusets, Maine, New York, Ohio etc.) to
buy electricity to be transmitted from the proposed new hydro development
called 'Lower Churchill' in Newfoundland-Labrador.

I've also read that electricity in say Hawaii is expensive at around 22
cents per? but i guess they don't have to much heating?

Terry.