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LET’S GO ELECTRIC
It’s time to give your home a glow up.

Let’s Go Electric

The future is electric, and it starts at home. Modern, all-electric appliances give you the heating and cooling you need in one appliance, delivering the perfect temperature and humidity for your home all year round. Going electric also removes harmful indoor emissions and improves air quality, creating safer and healthier homes for you and your loved ones. Explore our resources to switch to an electric water heater and home heating and cooling today.

Why Go Electric for Appliances?

Protect your loved ones and invest in your home for the future.

Start Your Electrification Journey

Discover resources available to help you protect your family and modernize your home.

Limited 20% Discount on Heat Pumps through Rewiring America till 11/14/25

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Access Peninsula Clean Energy’s Available Resources for Home Upgrades

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Broken Water Heater? Borrow an Emergency Gas Water Heater

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Find Incentives You are Specifically Eligible For

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Try An Induction Stovetop and Discover the Ease of Electric Cooking

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Start Your Home Electrification Journey With a Home Energy Score

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Free Home Upgrade Program For Menlo Park Residents

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Modernize Key Appliances in Your Home

Take action in your home one appliance at a time with efficient and high-performing models.

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Water Heating

Heat pump water heaters are cleaner, safer, and the most efficient method of heating water on the market. Upgrading to a heat pump water heater is better for the climate and may help reduce your energy bill. 

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Space Heating and Cooling

Heat pumps allow you to heat your home in the winter and cool your home in the summer. Because they operate in a stable and consistent way, they bring more comfort to your home and are more energy efficient than gas furnaces. 

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Clothes Drying

Heat pump clothes dryers are more energy-efficient than their gas counterparts, don’t require ventilation, and are gentler on clothing.

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If you would like access to the toolkit and the campaign’s full asset portfolio, please email sustainability@smcgov.org.

Additional Resources

Discover how switching to all-electric appliances and decisions you make at home are so important now and for the future.

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Explore San Mateo County Cost Studies

See costs for typical homes
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