Indeed, it can even be cheaper – when ALL factors are taken into account. But there’s more of course. This was a picture taken at a property we visited. Thank you all for your excellent arguments.

Oil prices are tanking at the moment, don’t rule out $60 per barrel. Burning coal is not going to happen. Unless you want to fund it I do not. In the holiday home we installed low voltage underfloor heating (Step Warmfloor ). All in all, you can expect to pay 14-32p / kWh. In either case, fit a timer to the immersion so that it only heats for set periods. If you don’t like that, then take it up with the Energy Savings Trust.

Hi So I think there are a few inaccuracies, firstly a boiler service is not £175! I love my poorly insulated barn conversion, but the LPG boiler flues into the chimney and is 20 years old. It is old fashioned, unreliable, troublesome, and outdated. So for our hot water, we have a hot water cylinder with an immersion heater. For your hot water, I would recommend either a standard immersion heater cylinder, or a mains-pressure type, like an Albion Mainsflow Contractor Electric. However, by going for a green tariff you will ensuring that some of those proceeds go towards re-investment back into renewable and clean energy sources. That depreciation is a whopping £250 a year. In fact I tried to make the results worse (more shading) and came out with only 2084kwh using my postcode. If you’re living off the grid, LPG is the most cost effective heating option. Even if you had to install a brand new heating system (at £4,500) – it would still pay back and make more sense to go for gas. Thanks for the breakdown of both prices, really gave me some perspective . In the event of a power failure in rural Wales I have an LPG gas fire and with an immersion heater and a tank full of hot water I think I’m going to be all set for winter. Still, using efficient electric heating like infrared could help keep the bills down while using your solar pv. A return on investment has to be within a reasonable time period. If you don’t want a wet system, you need to look at infrared. My house is 2100sq ft 3 bed Living, Kitchen and Dining Room, one bathroom and one En-suite (Electric Shower. Most people use 20% or so at night, so chances are, even if you immersion works out a fraction cheaper, everything else is going to more than cancel it out….
This is an interesting question. Radiators can be controlled by temperature – i.e. Never choose Extra Energy as your preferred supplier! House value: I already have the oil tank in position from previous occupiers.

I want to replace my 14yr old condensing combi switching to a cylinder.

So really it depends on the boiler you currently have?

I have an electric storage heater- is it better to fire that up or use our oil run radiators?!? Our hot water works from a heater in the bathroom upstairs. For most of us, the cheapest heating system is going to be mains gas fuelled. LPG and heating oil are the runners up, with electricity and bottled gas lagging behind in last place. I have already shown you that reducing gas from 5p to 4.21 makes a difference of only £125 to the figures, mate! So bottled gas is not a cost effective way to heat your home, that’s before a 10% reduction in efficiency over electricity. Hi Barry, thanks for your comment. The cost of heating your home with gas (British Gas) Single tier rate. I live in a house with a EPC set at E; which is very bad; but I have been using electric oil heaters and the yearly bill is about £800; which is about the same as my previous house for oil heating and electricity combined. Very useful guide. At the end of the day gas is on your property but can be cut off by the supplier as has happened to some of my customers where i have been there to connect the immersion heater on the cylinder. I note that previous bloggers are supporting their arguments by calculations, in my experience it is too difficult to control for multiple variaBles such as kW cost, usage profiles, number in home, insulation levels, maintenance, inflation, size of windows, thickness of curtains, etc. But if you’re looking for the cheapest heating system you should consider Economy 7.

Hinckley point is going to be selling us power (8% of UK demand even at night) at £100 a megawatt hour. In the end it’s all down to personal preference but cost wise I’d be extreamly surprised to see electricity win in the next 10 years! In the long run I cannot work out whether we should go with gas or electricity.

Hi I live in a two bed flat and have gas central heating and I am paying £94 or a year as a standing charge whether Hello Barry, you are probably a much younger man than I am, and you have some absolutely splendid and vociferous arguments, but I am going to stop your there with this comment I am afraid: “The time of gas central heating has been and gone. I have a large property in a very rural area so no mains gas. Very good article. The article is fairly decent but considers efficiency of a gas boiler only – so when making the heat.

You must consider that even at night, the best economy 7 tariffs are around 6.5p/kWh, whilst your average gas price is around 4p. Never knew electricity we do expedient. I did choose the cheapest electric price – obviously(!) The spectrum band on electric is wide – from 9.5p cheapest to double figures. If I do either or both, can I receive a grant to help? I was so disgusted with the whole fiasco I complained to QUIDOS (who oversee the scheme) who also thought this was inaccurate. Some cylinders have a 25yr warranty. His honesty is refreshing and I’m bowled over with his clarity and openness. Im glad that i can help some of you guyz !!
Very interesting reading as we have electric storage heaters on economy 7 at a cost of 4.2 p day and 15p night.

Many thanks Richard. So that is our experience, electricity has to be the Fuel of the future as it is supported by the direct input from sun, wind, nuclear, wave, tidal barriers, microgeneration etc. If you are paying 9p/kWh, good for you.

i live in a 2 bedroom bungalow with economy 7 heating which can be upgraded to biomass system heating with wood pellets. Even a brand new boiler will only be about 90% efficient. Having said all of the above, 4 years ago I set up an electric heating installation company, being 100% honest with you it was the best thing I ever did. The Greendeal Assessor was dismissive and refused to query the result so a formal complaint was the only option. Then we moved to where we are now. I pay 51p a litre for LPG plus a daily charge of 12p. The 10 years I quoted comes direct from Defra, not me, so take it up with them. The system also requires far more maintenance to continue operating efficiently. HI Barry ,, would appreciate your input ,, what do you think about Infrared heating panels ? Thanks. So buying Calor gas to heat your home is a lot more expensive than pretty much any other option, especially when you factor in an efficiency rating of less than 100%. It was a woefully inadequate 6KW.

Mains gas is the obvious winner here; it is cheaper to heat your home with gas than electricity, provided you can get it from the mains. In my home I used Warmup Foil underfloor heating coupled to simple room/air thermostats. Butane and propane are the most common choices for bottled gas, usually for small portable stoves. The mathematics are false. Do these rates take into account the off peak rates of electricity such as economy 7?

We hope that this will put to bed the common misconception that heating your home with electric heaters is cheaper than using a combination of gas boiler and radiators. My feeling would be that the money you are losing via the lack of pipe lagging isn’t actually as high as you think. We have no mains gas. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Hope this is of use, Hi great site this has anyone ever heard of supergreen uk providing infra red boilers????

In the summer this is fine. The latter an event I genuinely thought was a game changer. I don’t need to go over again how much a gas-based heating system costs. Costs vary widely depending on the volume you buy, but the typical sizes of gas bottle range from small 6kg canisters to larger 47kg bottles. Barry, we are doing renovation at the moment and are seriously considering going all electric. I moved into a new build semi detatched house in January 2008 so quite energy efficient. Hi Ben, Above at August 26, 2014 at 5:05 pm But as I have shown, it isn’t. Hi- loved reading all the articles about gas versus electricity. Even though the efficiency of a new gas boiler is not as high as an electrical equivalent, based on the fact it is so much cheaper for each unit of gas, mains gas still wins! Now here are some estimated annual running costs for different heating systems using the UK gathered averages: Fuel Source              Cost per /kWh                     Average Annual Costs*, Electric                       9.9p                                         £2,053 **, Mains Gas                   2.4p                                         £609, Heating oil                  6p                                            £538, LPG                             7.6p                                         £1,125. I for one seem to spend a fortune on servicing/repairs and then there is the cost of the annual safety certificate. It is more common for households without mains gas access to heat their homes using either heating oil or electricity as the fuel source. What do people think? Installation costs for these systems are high at £11k-£15k, but again it will more than pay itself off with subsidies.

BUT, an electric car is more expensive to produce. Will you help me get this information out to the general public?


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