Oil and Gas get massive subsidies every year, but a huge part of it are the very popular heating oil subsidies that keep people alive in the winter. Could these be reduced or replaced if instead the government gave money towards families purchasing electric heaters and spending their money on that?
Edit: USA but i assume the problem is not uniquely ours
Resistive heating is a waste of energy. If you people can use your AC units as heat pumps, then we’re getting somewhere, if your grid can survive that
If the grid can run the AC it should be able to handle the heat pumps, arent they basically the same machine?
Functionally, yes. I mean, it needs to be the kind that have the reverse switch so you can switch it to heating in the winter, but it’s effectively the same power use.
An AC unit is a heat pump. The heat is pumped out.