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Originally Posted by indyjoe  My new home is all electric. I love to cook on gas, so I have to decide if I want to convert to gas or not. The one thing I keep thinking about is that natural gas and propane will keep going up in price. We import about 75% of NG, if I'm remembering that statistic correctly.
Solar is getting more and more efficient. I think I might be better to stick with electric and spend the conversion money on building up a solar assist to my electric bill. That would still be useful if we got into a crazy situation with utility prices or lost the grid for any reason.
The nice thing is that there is a good fireplace with insert and outside air combustion. This means that it shouldn't rob the house of heat by sucking in combustion air while running and add to the winter heat. Not quite as good as a wood burning stove, but far better than a gas fireplace. |
My house is setup just pretty much like yours.. I am in need of updating my heat pump to modern standards. Ours is 30 some odd year old technology, can't afford geo-thermal right now.. but solar is on our radar. We have gas in our neighborhood, our house might be the only one without it but my wife is bugging me for a gas stove.. and it would be good for a short term shtf. My fireplace insert has an electric fan, powered by my 7500kw genset when needed..