I don't know where the heck all this extra electricity for heat pumps and electric car charging is going to come from. In CA if you get a slightly hotter than average summer their electrical grid goes into chaos. Get a slightly colder than normal winter and the north east and central grid freaks out. I'm all for transitioning to renewable energy (nuclear makes the most sense if you take emotion and bullshit out of it) but we have a long way to go before we can just ditch gasoline, diesel and natural gas any time soon. Heck how many millions of US homes will have to get their electrical service upgraded, never mind the base electric infrastructure?
A heat pump operates at 2x to 4x the power efficiency as compared to resistive heating. Many places are unfortunately only doing resistive heating because of cheap install cost. If we can replace that with a heat pump that's a big win for everyone.
