Janos:
Anybody have experience of using an electric water heater instead of gas?
Indirect hot water cylinders usually have an electric immersion heater, for hot water not heating, in the system for if the gas boiler is off line for whatever reason.Try it and see what that alone does to the fuel bill let alone if it included heating.
A gas boiler runs at around 20 kwh + for hot water and heating.
Electric is 26p per kwh as opposed to 6p per kwh for gas …so far, with Bozo having just ramped up gas prices by double from 3p per kwh obviously on the way to artificial equalisation.Unless he’s trying to say that ‘wholesale prices’ for gas supposedly doubled within one month.
So call it £5.20 per hour for electric v £1.20 per hour for gas.