Posted by Dwayne Hoover on August 2, 2006, 11:02 pm
I'm buying a house in CT the house I'm buying will have an electric
stove and no clothes dryer. The heat is oil but they have a gas line on
the block. I'd like to cook with gas and I hear that a gas powered
dryer could save me up to $50 a year in energy costs. I'll have to pay
to bring a gas line from the street to the house. Does anyone have a
round figure of what it will cost me vs. the energy savings to convert
both the stove and clothes dryer to gas?
Posted by Clark W. Griswold, Jr. on August 2, 2006, 11:31 pm
>I'm buying a house in CT the house I'm buying will have an electric
>stove and no clothes dryer. The heat is oil but they have a gas line on
>the block. I'd like to cook with gas and I hear that a gas powered
>dryer could save me up to $50 a year in energy costs. I'll have to pay
>to bring a gas line from the street to the house. Does anyone have a
>round figure of what it will cost me vs. the energy savings to convert
>both the stove and clothes dryer to gas?
You'll need to call a few local plumbing companies. Regional variations in labor
and the amount of work to run gas lines in your existing house make that
impossible to answer.
The dryer and stove are not the prime consumers of energy though. In CT, home
heating followed by hot water are. If you don't convert these two, you probably
won't ever see a payback.
Posted by Dwayne Hoover on August 2, 2006, 11:57 pm
I'm sorry I wasn't clear. My heat and hot water are both powered by
oil. Right now the owners are using electric from both their oven and
clothes dryer. I'm trying to figure out if it's worth it to purchase a
gas powered dryer and sell the new electric range they are leaving us
with and buy a gas stove since that is what we are used to. I know The
gas stove and dryer are more expensive initially than their electric
counterparts but it's my understanding that Connecticut pays the
highest electric prices in the country so I think I want to avoid
paying electric where I can.
Clark W. Griswold, Jr. wrote:
> >I'm buying a house in CT the house I'm buying will have an electric
> >stove and no clothes dryer. The heat is oil but they have a gas line on
> >the block. I'd like to cook with gas and I hear that a gas powered
> >dryer could save me up to $50 a year in energy costs. I'll have to pay
> >to bring a gas line from the street to the house. Does anyone have a
> >round figure of what it will cost me vs. the energy savings to convert
> >both the stove and clothes dryer to gas?
> You'll need to call a few local plumbing companies. Regional variations in
labor
> and the amount of work to run gas lines in your existing house make that
> impossible to answer.
> The dryer and stove are not the prime consumers of energy though. In CT, home
> heating followed by hot water are. If you don't convert these two, you probably
> won't ever see a payback.
Posted by Tracey on August 4, 2006, 12:45 am
I know The
> gas stove and dryer are more expensive initially than their electric
> counterparts but it's my understanding that Connecticut pays the
> highest electric prices in the country so I think I want to avoid
> paying electric where I can.
It depends on where in CT. There are 4 or 5 towns covered by Municipal
Electric Companies (the town I live in is one of them) which pay less
(15-25% less) than areas covered by the 'big' power companies, UI and CL&P.
Areas that are serviced by United Iluminating pay higher electric rates than
CL&P (Northeast Utilities), at least as of the last time that my municipal
electric service provided us with a comparison chart .
And I'm not buying the idea that CT's rates are the highest in the country,
I believe the rates we pay at our property in Vermont are significantly
higher than the rates here in CT.
Posted by D. Gerasimatos on August 4, 2006, 1:18 pm
> I know The
>> gas stove and dryer are more expensive initially than their electric
>> counterparts but it's my understanding that Connecticut pays the
>> highest electric prices in the country so I think I want to avoid
>> paying electric where I can.
>It depends on where in CT. There are 4 or 5 towns covered by Municipal
>Electric Companies (the town I live in is one of them) which pay less
>(15-25% less) than areas covered by the 'big' power companies, UI and CL&P.
>Areas that are serviced by United Iluminating pay higher electric rates than
>CL&P (Northeast Utilities), at least as of the last time that my municipal
>electric service provided us with a comparison chart .
>And I'm not buying the idea that CT's rates are the highest in the country,
>I believe the rates we pay at our property in Vermont are significantly
>higher than the rates here in CT.
http://www.neo.state.ne.us/statshtml/115_200409.htm
Highest: Hawaii (14.15 cents/kwh)
Lowest: Kentucky (4.41 cents/kwh)
You are right that Vermont is higher than Connecticut, but only slightly.
Dimitri
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>stove and no clothes dryer. The heat is oil but they have a gas line on
>the block. I'd like to cook with gas and I hear that a gas powered
>dryer could save me up to $50 a year in energy costs. I'll have to pay
>to bring a gas line from the street to the house. Does anyone have a
>round figure of what it will cost me vs. the energy savings to convert
>both the stove and clothes dryer to gas?