With my home solar, my maintenance consists of twice per year getting on a ladder with a water hose and a long handle brush to clean them.
My hybrid water heater has a small air filter I have to clean every now and then (I typically do it monthly during allergy seasons in the spring and fall). That's no different than cleaning the lint screen of a clothes dryer.
The main "maintenance" I do is always studying the data export from my inverters, comparing the past week or so's power movements to the same week the prior year, etc. Seeing how much the cost of gasoline is and how much it would have cost to drive my old pickup at 15 mpg instead of the EV, or how much it would have cost a fairly new gas crossover getting maybe 25 mpg if we had gotten one of those instead of the EV crossover.
I then sometimes tweak the inverter settings, most notably the setting on when the inverters power a separate electrical panel that's powered only when my home solar batteries are charged at least X%. I have one of the EV's two chargers on that intermittent electrical panel.
The idea is that if my wife and I come home in the EV with it charged more than enough for the next day, we plug it on the intermittent charger (charge the EV more from it's current state only if there's free power in batteries beyond what the home needs to go through the night without pulling from the grid). Or if we come home needing a charge whether or not the power is free, we plug the EV to the constantly powered charger.
So if we charge the EV up to 80% (the recommended top for local driving) on a sunny day and get 220 to 250 miles range with that, and drive it about 50 miles per day, that's multiple days per row we can have little to no free power (rainy days) before we decide to charge the EV with the constantly powered outlet (which means pulling from the grid if there's not enough free power). That happens sometimes. Or maybe there are days we drive it more (i.e. charging it to 100% for the next day to go on a trip means using the constantly powered cable). But for the most part, we use the charging cable tied to the free power electrical panel. That technique of charging the EV mainly on the free power cable does an amazing job of giving us mostly free miles, which comes out to about 1,300 miles per month (home charged miles, not counting trip miles).
The other reason to consider buying this particular model of pellet stove is that there is a 30% tax credit on it again.
There was not when I purchased mine. Not only is the 30% credit on the actual stove buy on the SS pipe and installation too. So, it could be $2K off the total $7K price.
Again, these things make a lot more sense up here in rural New England where our choices to heat our homes are limited to oil, propane, coal, cord wood and electricity. If natural gas is available it does not make as much sense.
FYI, my 52 year old house originally had electric radiant heat in the ceilings. This is because it was built during the oil embargo of the early 1970s. When electricity was actually cheaper than oil. The house has blue board attached to the ceiling joists. Then 18 gauge wires attached to the blue board. Then about 1/4” of skim coat plaster was applied over that.
The house had a thermostat in every room when we bought it. However, the previous owner had installed a forced hot water boiler furnace in the 1980s. With baseboard hygromic radiators. I removed the thermostats and reused the eight 20 amp circuits for other purposes like ceiling fans in the bedrooms. Some we just disconnected in the main panel and labeled where they went. In case we wanted to use them again in the future. There is 12/2 Romex going to each box.