I have a pretty ideally angled roof near Boston and was considering a solar setup. However as far as I can tell we won't get paid for excess generation in any given month, so since we don't really use much electricity it seems this is not a good investment. Are there any common updates possible to take advantage of the excess power? Before ETH switched to POS I thought about mining crypto... otherwise we could switch to electric heat but that is a huge outlay.
> otherwise we could switch to electric heat but that is a huge outlay.
You can walk into any major retailer, buy a space heater, and plug it into any outlet in your home. Keep in mind that your gas furnace is turned on/off using a thermostat and temperature setting, so if you reduce the set-point e.g. 1 degree, and then either locate the coldest parts of your home or areas you want to prioritize (e.g. livingrooms/bedrooms), you can then target space heaters into that location to offset the savings from gas.
In terms of deployment heating or cooling, electric heat is the cheapest and easiest. You're just thinking that it must be whole-home or nothing, which isn't the case, you can reduce your whole-home and spot-heat as needed.
Sure but I don't want a bunch of random space heaters around the house. Regardless of whether they are safe or not it's a waste of space if there is an existing central heating system.
That's one of the options I've been considering. Another is to switch to heat pumps instead of natural gas burners, which has the benefit of being drop-in for the existing furnace.
