Electric to Oil Conversion
Has Your Electric Heat Left You In The Cold This Winter? If you’re not satisfied with the comfort your electric heat gives you, consider a move up to oil.
Know The Facts About Oil Heat
- Oil Heat Keeps You Warmer: An oil furnace or boiler can provide improved comfort with air from the register that is up to 30 F / 17 C warmer than electric heat.
- Oil Costs Less: Fuel oil will heat your home for two to five times less money than electricity. The equipment payback is surprisingly fast.
- Air Conditioning Is Possible: If you’re replacing an electric heat pump with oil heat, you can keep your efficient Air Conditioning unit.
- Oil Gives You more Hot Water: Tests prove that fuel oil typically heats household water twice as fast as electricity. Usually at about half the cost.
- Oil Heat Is Environmentally Friendly: In emission tests on heating equipment, oil produced low levels of particulates comparable to other modern equipment.
- Electric Heat to Oil can reduce existing “Energy Costs” by 50% or more a year with paybacks of less than 5 years are common.
- Electric Water Heaters are extremely inefficient – about 29%.
- Cost savings for converting an electric water heater to an “Oil Fired” water heater ranges from $101.00
to $467.00 or more a year.
- Oil heat is environmentally friendly. Fuel burning (non-nuclear) power plants for electric resistance heat generation contributes most heavily to the green house effect.
- Over the last 5 years, in the Middle Atlantic States, the average cost of electricity has been 3 1/2 times more than oil.
Sources: OMA – (Oil Heat Manufactures Association), Brookhaven National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy – Facility Energy Service
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