“..Same here. I save a lot with a variable speed heat pump,...”
Yep...they’re pretty efficient and can produce about three times the heat for the same amount of energy that the strips would use within their efficiency range.
For colder weather, we use a propane boiler, low-speed pumps, circulate water thru PEX up under the floor joists (properly installed, insulated, etc.) to create a radiant heat floosr, and we do this in 3 different zones throughout the house.
It can be 20 below outside, the house (6” exterior walls with R23 and R30+ in the ceilings) will stay at a nice 72 degrees with minimum use of fuel. That boiler could easily be changed out to utilize a wood pellet boiler should FJB really go off in total insanity.
I have the same line of thinking. My solar and battery storage provides 83% of the electricity I need through the year in my all-electric home, including charging the EV (16K miles per year, not counting the 10K miles we charged it last year away from home). I'm happy with having to buy only 17% of the energy we need for the home. Going further is running head long into the law of diminishing returns and wouldn't be worth it fiscally.
But in the back of my mind I'm always thinking the "what if" scenario of the Dims making it painful to buy even that 17% of my power from the grid. What if they make it too costly? What if they set up a mark-of-the-beast style social credit score?
So I already have in mind what it'd take to be 100% energy independent.