This is why the heat pump should come along with local electric generation (mostly solar) and local storage (mostly battery banks). In this configuration a typ

This is why the heat pump should come along with local electric generation (mostly solar) and local storage (mostly battery banks). In this configuration a typical suburban home can provide ALL of it's own energy needs, including 2 electric cars. This also needs to come along with a massive reorganization of the US' electric utilities, which are primarily optimized to provide the most money possible to some rich assholes. Instead we should be optimized for local generation, storage and distribution. That is to say, we should be technologically optimized, not shareholder return optimized. Obviously, this won't happen while the world's richest have the sway that they currently hold on policy. But in the mean time, each homeowner can move ahead with local generation and storage that provides for all of their local energy consumption. And YES, it does pay for itself over a shorter time span than a typical mortgage...