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On 20 Nov 2017 20:07:18 GMT, David wrote:



Back in the day IIRC the cost for energy used to be (cheapest first):

Mains gas.

Mains electric.

Bulk gas or oil or solid fuel.

Bottled gas.

Wood is a bit of a funny one because it used to be dirt cheap but with
all the trendy wood burners it is now very expensive in most areas.

If the list above is reasonably accurate then electric heating (of
almost any sort) would be cheaper than bottled gas.

I think you have oil in the wrong place

no-one would ever install an oil CH system if electric were cheaper

what would be the point?

tim

Just fond this!
https://www.confusedaboutenergy.co.u...ic-fuels/fuel-
prices
my answer now is get a multi-fuel grate for the wood burner and burn coal
- by far the cheapest fuel.



Even burning an anthracite based smokeless fuel that is more expensive
than plain coal we find it is much cheaper than electric and our
Winter electric bill is considerably less than the summer one.

though unless things have changed

solid fuel boilers lack the automated control of liquid/gas fuels

tim