If you look at the PGE bill that is visible before article gets cut off, his electricity use went way up year over year and his natural gas use went down. I'm guessing he got an electric heat pump to replace his gas furnace, and just pays a lot more per kWh for electricity than he was paying per therm or cuft or whatever of natural gas.

He was out of town for 3 weeks the year before. He then compared to previous years and his use is way down.

He said this himself in the article.

(when I made the comment above, most of the article was behind a subscribe-to-view wall.)

Hi there. Author of this post. The content gate is on by default for all of my newsletter content, but I figured out a way to turn it off. You should be able to read the full article now without putting in an email.

Thank you for making your article's text available. This seems to be the key quote people were looking for:

"Many homeowners with heat pumps are likely on the wrong rate plan and paying more than they should. The right plan can make the difference between saving money and spending more money with the exact same equipment."

I appreciate it. The article is really well thought out, it looks like it took some real research & effort. Bookmarked the domain.

I am glad to hear you found it helpful! It did take a bunch of research and effort and it means a lot to know that it shows through.

> Def not making an account on whatever random website heatpumped.org is.

Yet another example of a paywall that can be defeated by disabling JS or using a text mode browser. Those are my second favorite. The most entertaining are the ones that pack the article text into some JSON, and then use JS to generate the readable version. At least then I get a minor puzzle to solve.