Did you know? (Your home)

A gas pilot uses somewhere between 750 and 1,500 BTUs of gas per hour; let’s use an average of 1,000 BTUs for this example. If you multiply that by 24 hours in a day, by 365 days in a year, and by 1,055 joules (J) per BTU, that amounts to 9.2 GJ of gas per year. At Terasen’s Rate 3 gas rate of $12.956/GJ (as of July 1, 2008), that amounts to $120/year—or $10/month—of gas just to keep that gas pilot on!