Winter Heating Costs - League Table

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Heating Costs this Winter

League Table

The basis of this little survey (and guys don't give me grief if I got the odd bit of maths wrong) is: The cost of heating 4 average modest domestic rooms for 1 day with an average power usage of 5Kw per hour, with the heating on for say 16 hours.





1. ELECTRICITY. Most expensive and the clear league topper, unless you are stoking the fire with €5 Euro notes, is Irish Electricity.

The price is a bit over 16 Euro Cent per kilo-watt-hour (one bar electric fire for 1 hour) written KhH including VAT and allowing for standing charges.

Cost of heating the 4 rooms for 24 hours: €12.80 per day





2. LPG. Bottled Propane gas works out at 14.5c per kwh

Cost of heating the 4 rooms for 24 hours: €11.60 per day




3. BULK LPG (Liquid Petroleum Gas) Bulk LPG is approximately 78 cents a litre or just under 11 cent per kwH

Cost of heating the 4 rooms for 24 hours: €8.80 per day.

OIL

4. OIL. Heating oil prices in Ireland are currently around the 84c per litre mark - which works out at is 8.5 Cent per kilo-watt-hour.

Cost of heating the 4 rooms for 24 hours: €6.80 per day.




5. NATURAL GAS. Natural Gas basic price is around 8c per kwH.

Cost of heating the 4 rooms for 24 hours: €6.40 per day.









6. WOOD PELLETS. Wood Pellets – I’m looking at the bagged cost which is averaging around 33c per kg, this translates roughly into 6.7 cent per kwh

Cost of heating the 4 rooms for 24 hours: €5.36 per day.





7. COAL. Smokeless Coal is daylight robbery at around €450 a Tonne or 5.4 cent per kwH (8,333 KwH per tone approx – (I think I have this figure in the ballpark)
Cost of heating the 4 rooms for 24 hours: €4.32 per day.






And the REAL WINNER IS

8. PEAT BRIQUETTES. Peat Briquettes are selling around €3.50 a "bale" which works out at 5.22c per kwH

Cost of heating the 4 rooms for 24 hours: €4.17 per day.





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