Add home battery to store electrical energy when cheap (potentially from your own solar panel) and use when expensive.
Then let your country / state lower the electricity carbon intensity.
We must electrify
Add home battery to store electrical energy when cheap (potentially from your own solar panel) and use when expensive.
Then let your country / state lower the electricity carbon intensity.
We must electrify
We can do both - switch everything to electric, and simultaneously adopt habits that limit waste of these.
Obviously, don't save electricity by using carbon intensive energy sources, that'd be counterproductive.
I agree with the rest of your comment.
Given that where I live installing a heat pump water heater costs over 20 years' water heating electricity consumption for me, and it would still use some electricity, so the payback period would be even longer: no, thank you.
Every so often I do the calculation to see if replacing my fridge would be worth it. The payback period is about 15 to 18 years for that. A new fridge would have more even temperatures throughout the cabinet and better temperature control, and be quieter, so I still review it every now and then.
Obviously my internal discount rate for investments is over 6.7%.