Devaney Energy

Devaney Energy is a Newton-based home heating company built around one thing: making sure you never run out of oil or propane. Reviewers keep returning to the same word for its technicians — thorough — whether the job is a furnace tune-up, an AC service call, or an emergency delivery, and the company has built a bench of named favorites customers ask for: Dave, Steve, Christian, Joe, Carl, Rob and Tony Wentzel among them. The story that keeps recurring is speed under pressure. In a 2024 review, a customer who checked a buried propane tank and found it nearly empty had a truck parked outside filling it within 30 minutes of the call. In a March 2026 review, a Lexington customer whose delivery was blocked by snow-buried tank access got a rescheduled delivery arranged around an oncoming storm. Long-tenure customers, several citing 20 to 30 years with the company, describe consistent quality and reliable automatic delivery across that whole span, and AC tune-ups get the same attention as heating service in warmer months. What's worth knowing before signing up for automatic delivery: a cluster of 2026 reviews describes the same pattern — a tank that was still well over half full got refilled anyway, at a notably high per-gallon rate, without the customer requesting it. One reviewer traced the math (192 gallons at $5.36 a gallon against a typical 135-gallon fill) and called the timing suspicious; another, a customer of three to four years, said a $400-a-year burner service package was never proactively scheduled despite being paid. Reddit posters discussing propane pricing in the area describe similar bills, $800–900 every six weeks, with some considering other providers. Separately, one reviewer described an unresolved buzzing and tapping noise months after a new HVAC installation despite repeat technician visits, and a 30-year customer said a furnace repair left the system broken with no follow-up after they left. Devaney is a solid pick for the basics — never running out of oil or propane, with a deep bench of technicians people ask for by name — but it's worth confirming how automatic-delivery timing and pricing work, and getting service-plan terms in writing, before enrolling.