[Tell It Right]

Evidently you glossed over the two sentences before that: "I doubt it’ll be worth going all-electric, though. Their winters are brutal. It might, however, be worth adding a heat pump rated for low temps as a kind of first step before temps get low enough to have to run the regular furnace."

Basically, I'm agreeing that a heat pump can't work well in very cold weather, especially older heat pumps (as you put it: "many moons ago"). The heat pump would warm the home in the fall and spring when it's do-able by a heat pump, and do so sometimes with free power if they have some pico wind turbines (assuming it's do-able when I get there and study the specs).

[EVO X]

I am not the first Freeper to gloss over articles and comments, LOL. I sort of hinted at the issue, but my point is can the elderly recover the cost of major upgrades before they pass on.