Kirkland, WA. On April 4, 2025, we had the gas furnace and gas water heater removed and replaced with heat pumps, making us an all-electric home. At the time, we calculated roof-top solar would meet 100% of our electric need, and one year in, that has indeed been the case.1 Our energy bill since going […]
All-Electric Homes Use Less Energy 2025_08
A significant energy truth not well understood is that the shift from fossil fuels to renewable electricity will decrease total energy need. Electricity is a capable workhorse. Appliances, tools and lighting run on electricity. Comparatively, fossil fuels are heat creators.1 Gas tools are leaf blowers—noisy, inefficient, polluting. Today, much of fossil fuel use for electric […]
100% Solar-Powered All-Electric Home 2025_08
“Figuring out how to fight a war over sunshine will be tricky. Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz.” Bill McKibben Our Kirkland, WA home is 100% electric since April, 2025, after we replaced our gas furnace and gas water […]
Western Washington Rooftop Solar
The cost of solar energy, now the cheapest electricity in much of the world, has dropped 76% since 2009. In the United States residential panel installed cost dropped from $8.50/watt to as low as $2.01/watt before incentives. In October, 2020, we paid $1.46/watt, after taking advantage of the 26% federal tax credit. That puts […]