The grid cannot support heating all homes on electricity. It would be extremely difficult and make the load balancing really tricky, especially if relying on re

The grid cannot support heating all homes on electricity. It would be extremely difficult and make the load balancing really tricky, especially if relying on renewables. It really spikes up the seasonality in demand for electricity in a way that's hard to satisfy. Namely huge demand for electricity in the winter when solar is at its least available. That's not to say this isn't a good idea. But the shift to electric heating on a national scale will be difficult. The experience of doing so now doesn't reflect what it'll take to do it everywhere. More than half of energy use in the home is spent on heating, and it's not uniformly distributed by time nor space at all. Not impossible, but very hard. The usual memes about just needing a lot of batteries need to be examined with some skepticism here. You'll need a lot of batteries to make that possible.