I bought a new induction cooktop to replace my old, leaky gas stove. Yay! #electrifyeverything!

It has not gone well.

This is a bit of a rant. But more importantly, my story is a window into a critical lesson for those of us racing to save the planet.
1/ My new cooktop cost almost $2k – and weeks of aggravation – to get wired and installed by a licensed electrician.

Switching from gas to electric cooking is not something an average homeowner can (or should) do by themselves.

But there are no one-stop services for this.

2/

Yesterday’s #rollingblackouts in CA were utterly preventable. We don’t need new technology or taxpayer subsidies. And we can actually *pay* utility customers to solve the problem. @ohmconnect can have 600MW online and ready by next summer. A short thread. 1/7 When dispatched by @California_ISO, @ohmconnect’s 150,000 customers currently reduce demand in California by over 150MW, equivalent to three natural gas peaker power plants. Last year, we paid over $3 million to our Californian customers. 2/7