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From: <br />Sven Thesen <br />To: <br />GRP -City Council <br />Subject: <br />Invitation, all electric home virtual tour. <br />Date: <br />Sunday, September 20, 2020 11:58:23 AM <br />Gentle Council Members, <br />To aid you in your deliberations regarding electrification Reach Codes, you are individually <br />and collectively invited to virtually tour our all electric home today (Sunday from noon to <br />5pm) and Monday from 7 to 4pm. Pick your time and email/ call me 415-225-7645*. The <br />honor of the tour is ours. <br />Our—23002 home has been all electric** since 2011 when it was constructed. <br />In summary, having lived with gas in prior homes, my wife and I have determined that our <br />standard of living/ quality of life is simply better with the all electric home. It's safer, more <br />convenient and cheaper than the electric / gas home. <br />As such, my wife and I are strongly in support for electrification. My wife, the physician, and <br />I, the chemical engineer, (& as parents), are from a micro perspective, particularly concerned <br />about indoor ambient air quality and the dangers from burns and fires associated with gas <br />stoves. From the macro perspective, we are equally concerned about the overall carbon <br />footprint of our society and the associated impacts including sea level rise, droughts, fires, <br />floods, species (including humans) migration/ loss and more. <br />Come take a look! <br />Details: ProjectGreenHome.org <br />*If these dates/ times are not convenient, we can schedule for later, again, feel free to ping <br />me. We have had over 4,000 people through the house since 2009 including CEC <br />commissioners, politicians of all stripes, staff from CARB, CPUC & CEC, the public and even <br />scouts and Sunday school classes. <br />**Natural gas history: The home was designed in 2008/9 and built 2010/11, when heat <br />pumps, etc. were in the "toddler" stage of adoption in the United States. We were concerned <br />that the induction stove, the heat pump, the condensing dryer, all or some, would not work so <br />we plumbed for gas & had a gas connection. Turns out that it does all work and so we had <br />the utility "cut" the gas line in 2013 (& stopped paying the monthly connection fee). Had we <br />not installed gas from the beginning, we would have likely saved on the order of $ l Ok in <br />construction and permitting costs. <br />Sven Thesen, 415-225-7645 <br />EV Consultant & Founder, ProjectGreenHome.org and Beni SolSolar. com; Wonder Junkie <br />Electric Cars are Cheaper than Cell Phones! See: <br />htW://www.12rojectgreenhome.org/articles.html <br />