Energy and Electrification
Explore each topic to learn about how the equipment works, installation considerations, electrical requirements, energy use, available incentives, and resources for your home.
Home electrification means replacing natural-gas appliances (water heaters, furnaces, stoves, and clothes dryers) with efficient electric equipment. It can also include charging an electric vehicle at home and storing energy in a battery for use during outages. Reducing natural gas use in homes is a top priority of the City’s Climate and Environmental Action Plan (CEAP).
Electrification offers many benefits
- Indoor gas appliances, like gas stoves, release nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and fine particulate matter directly into indoor air, and these pollutants are associated with asthma and other respiratory illnesses, with children and older adults at greater risk. Any gas appliance can also produce carbon monoxide if it isn't venting properly. Electric appliances burn no fuel, so replacing gas equipment removes these pollution sources from your home and makes it safer.
- Heat pumps provide cooling and heating, and since the City’s default electricity source is 100% Green Power through Clean Power Alliance, your electric equipment runs on renewable electricity.
Electrifying a home does not have to happen all at once
Many households make the change one appliance at a time, often when existing equipment reaches the end of its life. This site explains how homes use energy and how electric technologies—including heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, induction cooking, heat pump dryers, electric vehicle charging, and home batteries—work and can improve your life.
