Long Term Electric usage.
One of the "additional" fees for long term full timing is electric, usually not included in the price of a 3,4,5,6 month stay. Normally it's priced by kw/h. I have no idea how many kw/h my 32ft 5t...
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Golden_HVAC wrote:
It is less expensive to run the electric heaters and refrigerator on electric, rather than hassel with refilling the propane tank every couple of months.
It takes about 22 KW of electric to make 80,000 Btu's of heat, while this same amount is made burning a gallon of propane (with flue gas loss taken into account).
So if a gallon of propane is $2.20 and a KW is only 10 cents, it would be equal cost either way. However the propane is normally not delivered, and if you are burning 2 gallons of gas to make a special trip, you would not with the electric.
If you have a heat pump, then you can make 80,000 Btu's while consuming about 8 KW, or 80 cents at 10 cents per KW. Heat pumps are very economical. .
Fred.
At .15-.18 per kw, it would be 50-80% higher than your estimate, so maybe propane for heat, electric for AC, microwave and TV. Guess I'll have to see. being fixed income, was just trying to put some budget numbers together.
