Cost of Electricity for Pellet Stove

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UpStateNY

Feeling the Heat
May 4, 2008
435
Catskill Mountains
Has anyone else seen a difference in electric usage due to pellet stove?

It looks like I lowered my electric bills by 1,100 less KWs this last heating season December Thru February. The major difference is I did not use my pellet stove in 2019 to 2020. At 17 cents a KW that is almost $200 savings just for electric by not using my pellet stove. I used propane hot water boiler baseboard heating, which uses some electric for hot water circulators.
 
No increase I can tell. If I don't use pellet stove it's Heat Pump. In Really Cold it uses strip heat. So pellet stove is cheaper. Now the four 5k heaters I do notice increase.
 
Very little. I did the math and I’d be using $13 a month of electricity if it was on high 24/7. Then I’m running more lights in the winter. Compare that with around $30 a month to run the dehumidifier in the basement in the summer, and it’s about a wash, my bill is about the same year round.
 
No difference here either. Same year round, within $10 every month. All electric here, no natural gas, propane or heating oil. Lennox heat pump with auxiliary/emergency heat strip, which is why we got the Harman. Once heating season hits, it's 24/7 for the stove till spring. Run up to 4 small fans(depending on heat need) plus the heat pump air handler to circulate the heat. Dehumidifier along with the a/c side of the heat pump all summer. Last months electric bill was $136 with heavy a/c usage, First winter here, electric bill was $450 a month trying to heat this place. Average $130 - $140 month now. Harman already paid for itself in the 6 years we've owned it.
 
Ran a meter on my stove from January to may, 10-11$/month
 
The cost of electricity to run my stove is not important
It is the heat that's important here in the Great White North
 
over the winter i save about $300-500 on hydro and about $1000 on my gas bill and thats after i factor in the cost of pellets for the season... Before the stove i used to run a dehumidifier 24/7 and the furnace... No more dehumidifier and the furnace only gets used in the mornings to take the chill off and gets bumped up a bit during the really cold weeks. I do not leave me stove running while im at work..