Heating Cost: Electric vs. Propane
I'm not sure if this is the best forum category for this thread. I am spending the winter in South Texas and we are back to heating the motorhome. I bought an electric heater because I like to min...
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CarnationSailor wrote:
Last year we were in an RV park in Palm Springs from November thru March, and we paid for the electricity we used. I kept close track of our heating costs when using our heat pump and when using the propance furnace. The cost to heat by electric was virtually identical to the cost of heating with propane.
heat pump is about 3x more efficient that resistance heating. So in many cases a heat pump vs. propane may be a wash, but resistance heating then would be much more expensive.
