Beyond stupid, this is insane! Using electricity to heat homes? Power plants are about 20 percent efficient. The rest of the energy is waste heat. At least with gas heating most of the energy actually goes into heating the home.
I like it. Supply and demand. Them using less Natural Gas will keep prices lower here in the good old U S of A. That’s good for me!
I have posted this graph a few times on FR over the last 5-10 years about the stupidity of the ban on incandescent light bulbs, but it illustrates your point quite well:
That big gray pipe of "Rejected Energy" is largely energy lost in transmission (from the Electricity Generation pipe at least) Amazing.