> I know electricity production is not renewable everywhere in the world yet, but at least it’s on a path and possible
And somewhat counter-intuitively, even if you are going to consume that natural gas, it still works out better for the power plant to use it to generate electricity that's used to run a heat pump than to burn it directly for heat.
Your response is only true if using electricity to heat is cheaper than using gas to heat. It isn’t for resistive heating. For heat pumps it can, but it has to be high efficiency heat pumps that start efficient even at cold winter temps
And somewhat counter-intuitively, even if you are going to consume that natural gas, it still works out better for the power plant to use it to generate electricity that's used to run a heat pump than to burn it directly for heat.