You’re Thinking About Home Heating Wrong

"the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) in central California has adopted some of the country’s most aggressive rebate incentives for heat pumps, as much as $3,000 on heat-pump space heaters and $2,500 on heat-pump water heaters.... Sacramento power burns no coal, and runs roughly 50 percent carbon-free, thanks in large part to hydroelectric power. Blunk calculates that a new-construction home on the grid might reduce its carbon output from 2.5 to 1.1 tons of carbon a year...."

Sounds like a great plan ... if only CA can solve it's PG&E problem. I once lived where I heated from a propane tank. In early March an ice-storm hit and the ice-laden wires snapped hundreds of power poles. I had plenty of propane, but no furnace blower for 3-4 days. An electric heat-pump wouldn't have helped.