Oil is currently 0.04p a KwH*
Electricity is 0.33p plus daily standing charge
Gas is 0.08p plus daily standing charge
*However, in March last year, it was 12p a KwH, which, at the time, was more than twice the cost of gas.
Blurb from comparethemarket:
Between July and September 2023, average standing charges for customers on default tariffs will be capped in line with the levels set by Ofgem in their price cap, at 53p per day for electricity and 29p per day for gas, excluding VAT, for a typical dual fuel customer paying by Direct Debit.
Now, I currently use 2.5 litres of oil a day to heat our hot water up twice. It's enough for one bath, one shower, and one lot of washing up in the evening and a few buckets for cleaning in the afternoon. In winter I use about 10 litres a day including for some heating, for a massive, pretty energy efficient house. Each litre of oil is 10.36 kw of energy.
So, at my current summer rate I am paying £1.44 per day (with no standing charge) to heat my hot water.
If we translate that into KwH (25.9kwh per day) for electricity, that's £8.54 plus a daily standing charge of 33 for electricity, or £2.03 per day for gas.
People (especially folks in the countryside) have traditionally gone for oil because it's cheaper. However, it has it's own issues. The very smallest amount I can order at any one time is 500 litres (although some folks have top up deals); often tanks are only large enough to top ups of around a 1,000 litres order at a time, so almost always have to top up in winter when the price usually goes up by at least 20%, and the government has no regulation over the industry whatsoever, so when gas and electricity are supported and capped, oil can feel free to go as wild as it likes, and it does.
However, neighbours once told me of the glory days three summers ago when oil was 17p a litre.
I've been on oil since summer 21 and it's never been below 45p.
Quite often it's fitted in old, poorly insulated houses too. We left one of these last summer; when oil hit £1.30 per litre, we knew that in the worst winter months, we could be paying £1,250 A MONTH to heat our house to a barely liveable 18-19 degrees (not insulated, the wind just blew straight through walls).
You need a massive tank in your garden and you need to be organised and take regular readings with dipsticks, because the automated kit with wifi signals often fail.
I'm a member of a local oil club and I've got measurements down to a fine art; I got a calibration chart from the manufacturer and I know exactly how many litres I have per cm on the dipstick (you can't just count x litres per cm due to the tank shapes). I know exactly how much oil I have until we get in the 'danger zone' (I allow 3 weeks from order to arrival), and once you've got it down, it's pretty simple really.
Unfortunately I know nothing about LPG.