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Monday - March 27, 2006 at 06:44 PM inMarch gas usage
In March, we saved 187 therms of natural gas in heating our home thanks to the wood heat and keeping the thermostat turned down. That's a little less than the past couple months, and I'm not sure why. My best guess is that we're down to the bottom of the barrel on firewood (we're now burning mostly green cottonwood), and the stuff we're burning now both doesn't burn as long or as hot as the better quality wood we were using at first.
The price of gas is also at its lowest point of the season, at $1.038/therm. As a result, we "only" saved $195 on our heating bill this month. For the season so far we've saved about $950. We've now left the peak of the heating season behind us, and it won't be long now before we don't need the gas furnace at all (we've only barely used it this past week, when the highs have been in the 40's with lows around freezing). But we will probably still save a couple hundred more dollars on heat, since the heating season doesn't really end until the average temperature reaches 60-65 degrees. That won't happen until May (on average) in the Twin Cities. I'm also starting to stockpile wood for next year. I've already scored about a half cord of boxelder (which burns very nicely), and identified several trees in our yard which need to come down. I'll need about ten cords of firewood to use maximum wood heat next season, and I'm not sure where I'll store it all. Posted at 06:44 PM | Permalink | | | |