As our electric grid is approximately 35% efficient from the plant to the plug, and Vermont is the only state in the country that is non-carbon based electricity, converting to heat pumps in most of the Northeast, and the US, creates more carbon than making your building more efficient and moving to 90+ efficiency boiler/furnace. If states want us to convert to electricity, states must first convert more of their grid to alternatives, and these commitments are far down the road. Northeast energy policy is not focusing on retrofit of existing buildings, particularly those that are not suited to electrification.