converting to electricity from Gas

 Generally speaking, electricity is more expensive to heat with than Gas. However, paradoxically here in the U.S. what is creating your electricity is also likely natural gas heating water for steam across our nation with a few nuclear reactors mostly east of the Mississippi river and wind generators that you see a lot like in places like California. Then you also have solar panels in the deserts and on houses wherever there is enough sun to do this. 

For example, I'm not allowed to have a wind generator in Northern California along the coast even though the prevailing winds would power one there. But, it isn't sunny enough year around to make it cost effective on the northern California coast to have solar power unless we moved 10 to 20 miles or more inland away from where the fog (high and low) is a lot year around. Southern California from Los Angeles south it isn't this way that much it 's mostly sunny there and you are also nearer the deserts there.

We still have natural gas cooking and heating in our Northern California home. For us natural gas is predictable because electricity often will go off for up to a week at a time in January through March of any given year because of 100 plus per mile an hour storms off the ocean there knocking down both trees and power lines.

However, now it is practical for us to install solar panels on our roof in Santa Barbara so we are doing that and it will be installed within about 6 month time at this point. We are told that it will reduce our electric bill about 85% per year with only January through March because of sun angle not getting enough sun during that time of the year.

So, it is important to do what is practical and useful for you to do in your lives.

We had to convert to all electric recently because we found out we had a leak in our likely installe in 1950s Gas line and it was leaking up through the dirt between the street and the house. Luckily nothing caught this leaking gas on fire or caused an explosion between the house and the street. But, laying a new gasline would cost us between 16,000 and 20,000 dollars so we decided to go all electric within the last 6 months because we were planning to go all solar anyway this year. There was a transition where our daughter and husband had to take solar heated showers for awhile and to cook on their barbeque range outside but it all worked out and now there is an electric water heater and electric stove all installed and working. So, the next step is to install the solar panels which will happen within the next 6 months.