Why we need to electrify everything in our homes, with Rewiring America’s Stephen Pantano

Good Clean Energy

Roughly 42% of energy-related carbon emissions come from households—our cars, water heaters, furnaces, dryers, cooktops and where we get our energy. Stephen Pantano, head of Market Transformation for Rewiring America, joins Good Clean Energy to explain how replacing fossil-fueled machines at home with electric ones is a critical and achievable strategy for reaching net zero emissions in the U.S.

Covered in this episode:

• [2:30] The mission of Rewiring America
• [4:02] “The perfect household is all-electric”
• [5:19] Using heat pumps to heat and cool your home
• [9:57] Cooking without gas
• [12:45] Heating your water with a heat pump
• [14:42] Drying your clothes with a heat pump
• [15:32] The economic incentives to electrify your home
• [20:49] Where Rewiring America comes in
• [23:22] The challenges of rolling out the rebate programs
• [24:51] The roadblocks to electrifying America
• [26:03] The 1 billion devices that need to be upgraded
• [29:59] Where an individual can make the most impact
• [31:22] A vision for 2035

For show notes and a full transcript, head to the episode page.

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