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The mandate should be to use electric heat pumps, not use electric heating. In Sweden they switched from oil to electric as “nuclear will be to cheap to meter”.
by bjelkeman-again 5y ago
The mandate should be to use electric heat pumps, not use electric heating. In Sweden they switched from oil to electric as “nuclear will be to cheap to meter”. Eventually sanity prevailed and heatpumps became the norm.
- toomuchtodo 5y ago> The mandate passed 11 to 3 in a vote by the State Building Code Council to restrict the use of natural gas in multifamily housing complexes and commercial buildings by requiring installation of electric heat pumps. A similar mandate for smaller residential buildings will be considered within the next few months.