I'm paying for both the propane and electricity. 43' fifth wheel with four slides- around 400 sf or so. 2013 Dutchmen. Winters here in NW FL are mild. We get 40-50° temperatures at night typically. Occasionally it will get into the 30's and we will have a few days of subfreezing weather per year. I have a heat pump in the main ac but the reversing valve has failed so it's just an ac for now. I have two 1500W electric fireplaces and they seem to do a good job of keeping the place warm enough for me and my Golden Retreiver. But would I save money if I use the propane furnace instead?

If you pay per KWH, propane is cheaper.If electric is included in the sit, electric is cheaper.

Prove it to yourself.Even if electricity was dirt cheap at ten cents a kilowatt hour just your two heaters would mean thirty cents per hour -- ten hours three dollars -- ninety dollars per month.But ten cents per kWh is like the days of the buck and a quarter breakfast special and grocery store Ten For A Dollar chicken pot pies.The actual cost is more like three times that. I remember my aunt in Seattle hooting "We pay three cents per kWh for power!" That was sixty years ago.Your propane furnace probably has 500% more heating power available.

I paid apx .21 per KWH in the RGV and heated with electric or propane. Mild winters cost per month was pretty much equal electric or propane. Apx $48 per month.

Propane is probably cheaper but you’d have to refill whereas electric you don’t.

Is it cheaper to heat my RV on propane or electric?

prairie_camper
Explorer
Dec 07, 2018
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Prove it to yourself.

Even if electricity was dirt cheap at ten cents a kilowatt hour just your two heaters would mean thirty cents per hour -- ten hours three dollars -- ninety dollars per month.

But ten cents per kWh is like the days of the buck and a quarter breakfast special and grocery store Ten For A Dollar chicken pot pies.

The actual cost is more like three times that. I remember my aunt in Seattle hooting "We pay three cents per kWh for power!" That was sixty years ago.

Your propane furnace probably has 500% more heating power available.

What? Electricity at 10 cents a kWh, I pay less than 8 cents a kilowatt all day long. Come on down, oh wait it’s minus 20 centigrade tonight, you might want to reconsider.:B. LOL
ScottG
Nomad
Dec 07, 2018
Keep in mind that if your in a RV resort/CG you will be paying commercial rates, not residential. They can be much higher.
doxiemom11
Explorer II
Dec 07, 2018
Ask google - there is a chart online that you use with the current cost of electric and propane and it tells you which is cheaper. Last winter when we were in Yuma and electric was .20 kwh, propane was cheaper. This summer when in N Mex and electric was .14 kwh, the electric was cheaper.
Sea_Six
Explorer
Dec 07, 2018
Lots of good answers, folks!

Thank you all for your valuable input.

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