About how much did your electric bill go up, plus where is the best place for my storage

My electric bills seemed to have gone down just a few dollars when I switched from the forced air wood stove to the gasification boiler. Maybe $10 to $20? I don't think the blower on the forced air woodstove was in very good condition, and may have been drawing more current than it should have. I don't have my DHW hooked up yet, and am looking forward to seeing the effect of that.

No storage yet.

cheers

Best place for storage is in the basement. That way, any heat lost from the storage is still used to heat living space.
I am using DHW sidearm on my electric DHW tank, and I have realized a savings of over 40% on my last two bills from previous year's usage. I think that any extra consumption from pumps, etc. is more than compensated for, at least in my case, since I am no longer running electric baseboard heat or propane space heating.
Plus, its a lot more comfortable in the house.

My newly installed Tarm Solo 40 uses about 200 watts when it is running:
60 watts for the draft fan
60 watts for the boiler circulator
80 watts (20 to 120) for the radiant heat circulator

these are actual measured #'s with the system running

If it were running 24/7 (it does not, but if it were...)

200 watts x 24 hrs / 1,000 = 4.8 Kwhrs/day
4.8 Kwhrs x 10 cents/Kwhr = 48 cents per day
50 cents/day x 30 days = $15 per month

I probably use half that on average, but that is a realistic # if you have
over-sized or inefficient circulator pumps (or undresized piping) in your
system. I am off the grid, so I've already paid the electric bill for the
next 30 years (at about 20 cents/ Kwhr).

My electric bill went down $75 switching from a vegi oil burner to Wood gasification.

Dean

Medman said:

Best place for storage is in the basement. That way, any heat lost from the storage is still used to heat living space.
I am using DHW sidearm on my electric DHW tank, and I have realized a savings of over 40% on my last two bills from previous year's usage. I think that any extra consumption from pumps, etc. is more than compensated for, at least in my case, since I am no longer running electric baseboard heat or propane space heating.
Plus, its a lot more comfortable in the house.

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Concurr totally with putting the tanks inside the heating area. Our tanks will be in the unused "crawlspace" under the kitchen. The area is about 5'6" tall.

cheers