Berkeley's energy mix is solar dominant during the day and natural gas dependent at night. If you're cooking with light out (especially as our days are getting

Berkeley's energy mix is solar dominant during the day and natural gas dependent at night. If you're cooking with light out (especially as our days are getting longer as we approach spring and summer) you're coming out ahead. Generally, consolidated natural gas burning at a plant is more efficient than the cheap natgas stoves that most people have in their apartments and homes. This is aside from leaks in the infrastructure of course. IMO the much bigger issue with gas stoves is the hit in air quality. I have a CO2 and AQI meter I keep for measuring things and when we need to use the gas stove (we generally cook on induction) the difference in air quality is obvious both to our noses and to the meter and the air becomes appalling if we don't run the range hood. My partner and I have spent a lot of time in developing countries and just took the smell for granted until we started measuring the air quality. California also tends to be very anti-nuclear which is also quite silly. Berkeley even moreso.