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by FPGAhacker 1318 days ago
Damn, 40 per kWh electricity.

My last energy bill (including taxes and fees) is showing $0.124 per kWh electricity, and $0.62 per cubic meter of gas.

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With those prices, gas is still twice as expensive as electricity, so even if the gas stove is half as efficient, you still break even.

And yes, electricity prices in Europe are crazy right now. You can see some graphs here that show how enormous the spikes are compared to years of relative stability (no need to read the text; the graphs speak for themselves, and the y-axis starts at 0!)

Electricity: https://www.overstappen.nl/energie/stroomprijs/

Gas: https://www.overstappen.nl/energie/gasprijzen/

So apparently I slightly misremembered the prices; those graphs show that in 2020 the average gas price was about 84 cents per m3 (or about 8.4 cents per kWh assuming 10 kWh per m3), or 23 cents per kWh of electricity. That's closer to 1:3 than 1:4 on a per-kWh basis, but the general argument still holds that it seems like cooking on gas is cheaper than cooking on electricity.