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re: help with home heating
31 jan 2001
smegghed wrote:
>...what can i do to help lower my home heating costs? in our home
>everything is electric. we have a basement, (unfinished) first floor,
>and an unfinished attic...
caulk the house well against air leaks, add a woodstove or plastic film
sunspace or air heater over the south wall, push foamboard into most of
the window frames, and consider an off-peak electric meter. our local
futility (www.peco.com) charges 12.68 cents/kwh in wintertime up to 600
kwh/mo for electrically-heated houses and 6.28 cents above that, ie if
you use 601 kwh in a month with this "rate rh", you pay 12.68 cents for
the first 600, and 6.28 for the next one, an average of 12.67 cents/kwh.
otoh, you pay 5.47 cents/kwh from the first kwh with an off-peak meter.
you might run the largest electric heating circuit with off-peak power,
as well as a water heater, dryer and ac. peco controls these meters by
radio, and guarantees power for most of the day in wintertime, excepting
only m-f 4:30-6:30 pm. (it was on continuously through about 1/15 this
winter.) the power may be off m-f 1-7:30 pm, in summertime.
nick
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