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I live in New Mexico.
My house has an underground outside tank with a 1000-gal capacity for propane.
The house uses it for
• two hot water heaters
• a boiler for the radiant floor heating throughout house during cold months
• kitchen for the stone
• dryer in the laundry room
In the warm months, we don't use radiant heat at all, so the costs are minimal.
But we just had to add 596 gallons of propane at like $1400 and we'll have to do another by December. Each year we spend about $2500-3000 on propane. Ouch!
We've cut down our propane use in winter by keeping parts of the house including the living rm / dining rm COLD, they stay around 55 degrees except when we have company then we turn it on for a few days. This saves a lot of money. Also, I keep my office cold, which saves a lot too.
Here's the thing -- I can't stand propane and I wanna get beyond it. I'd like to go completely electric.
Ideal setup:
• Full solar farm for collecting plenty of electricity to power the house and charge the Tesla.
• One or two PowerWalls for backup etc.
• Replace the propane-powered hot water heaters with some other electric solution.
• Replace the radiant heating boiler with an electric boiler maybe?
• Or use a geothermal heat pump solution to create heat for the radiant heat if possible.
• Add a few mini-splits in various key rooms so we have spot heat in winter, cooling in summer.
• Essentially, I want to be completely emissions-free.
Has anyone in TMC-land gone this route or one similar? I'm all ears.
My house has an underground outside tank with a 1000-gal capacity for propane.
The house uses it for
• two hot water heaters
• a boiler for the radiant floor heating throughout house during cold months
• kitchen for the stone
• dryer in the laundry room
In the warm months, we don't use radiant heat at all, so the costs are minimal.
But we just had to add 596 gallons of propane at like $1400 and we'll have to do another by December. Each year we spend about $2500-3000 on propane. Ouch!
We've cut down our propane use in winter by keeping parts of the house including the living rm / dining rm COLD, they stay around 55 degrees except when we have company then we turn it on for a few days. This saves a lot of money. Also, I keep my office cold, which saves a lot too.
Here's the thing -- I can't stand propane and I wanna get beyond it. I'd like to go completely electric.
Ideal setup:
• Full solar farm for collecting plenty of electricity to power the house and charge the Tesla.
• One or two PowerWalls for backup etc.
• Replace the propane-powered hot water heaters with some other electric solution.
• Replace the radiant heating boiler with an electric boiler maybe?
• Or use a geothermal heat pump solution to create heat for the radiant heat if possible.
• Add a few mini-splits in various key rooms so we have spot heat in winter, cooling in summer.
• Essentially, I want to be completely emissions-free.
Has anyone in TMC-land gone this route or one similar? I'm all ears.