grumpyoldman
Senior Cook
for years i heated our home with wood pellets but i'm getting older and with a bad back so i started looking for other ways to heat our house . i learned that our power company had something called an ETS ( electric thermal storage) the way it works is this , electric heating elements heat bricks that store the heat and with a fan motor releases the heat when you need it , the concept is simple enough but the other advantage is that you get a much lower rate for electricity during off peak hours . i did as much as i could to nail down the operating costs of it before i decided but i could never quite get a handle on what it would cost to operate but with winter getting close and with my bad back , i decided to go with it . i now have been using it since the 1st of Oct. i compared my old electric bills to the one since , (i no longer have the pellet heater ) my new electric bills are running about $50.00 above what they were for the same months using the pellet heater here is where the savings come in, the pellets were costing me $300.00 per month so its a $ 250.00 per month saving even though my electric bill went up $50.00 per month not to mention saving my poor old back
these are a bit more complicated than they seem due to them being computer controlled and communicating with my power company
but they might be worth your time looking into them
these are a bit more complicated than they seem due to them being computer controlled and communicating with my power company
but they might be worth your time looking into them