On May 16, 7:23*pm, "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:
On Thu, 15 May 2008 12:23:36 +0100, Nick L wrote:
With the price of heating oil hovering around 60p per litre does anyone
know roughly what it costs to run a typical domestic oil fired boiler in
pence per kWh ?

Have a search back in here (I think) It's been discussed recently. But
basicaly burn 1l of oil in an hour and you get about 10kW of heat. So
60p/l (I'm glad I was sitting down...) is *roughly* 6p/kWhr but you have
to factor in the ineffciency of the boiler so add about 25% to that for a
real cost of useful heat.

(Thinking of installing an electric boiler)

There was a thread about that as well, IIRC it ran quite long and
rambled...

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Cheers
Dave.

So oil heat costs around 7.5p per kilowatt/hr.
Electricity which is supposedly 100% efficient etc. costs ???? per kw/
hr.
Syggestion:
Is the changeover cost and any reductions in maintenance cost such as
combustion chamber replacement, chimney cleaning, oil tank mtc. etc.
amortised over say a number of years worth it?
What are expecatations for changes in costs of oil and electrcity?
And yes there was a very long discussion on this matter, here, very
recently.