‘Give it to someone who cares’
A colleague was recently told to “give it to someone who cares” when handing out information on electrification. Over the course of the last five years, my family has taken steps to electrify our lives and we cut our total yearly energy cost by more than half. By total energy costs I mean what we pay for heating/cooling our home, heating our hot water, cooking and our cost of transportation (“gas” for our car).
When we built our home 13 years ago, we installed a geothermal heat pump for heating/cooling and a heat pump water heater. We used methane (natural) gas for cooking and as a heat source for the garage. Over the last five years we installed rooftop solar panels, replaced the garage heating with an air source heat pump, transitioned to driving an electric vehicle 95% of the time and switched to an induction stove for cooking. The result is a total energy bill less than half of what it was — on average saving us more than $2,500 a year.
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