all electric - is the way to go

[Ines Koch]

from the article Mike send around

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/what-does-it-take-to-electrify-everything-in-your-home#gs.UcpSP1E:

in the pending 2019 version of the building energy-efficiency standards, which take effect on January 1, 2020, commission staff included a provision enabling electric appliances and equipment to compete on a level playing field with gas. In an interview, Mazi Shirakh, a senior engineer in the CEC’s building standards office, said staff “eliminated some of the disadvantages for all-electric packages that exist.”

Their creative solution is a two-track system: an electric baseline for all-electric homes and a natural gas baseline for mixed-fuel homes. It would allow each type of home to comply with the code without competing with the other fuel.