A 30-home project could be built across the street from Los Gatos High School, bringing student safety to...
Stroll: Bay Area electric mandates — a vast expense with minimal benefit
Will you or your landlord need to replace your gas-fired furnace or water heater? Starting in less than two years, it may cost tens of thousands of dollars if the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has its way. And it’s unlikely to make much difference to air quality. A district report notes that some 120,000 household water heaters turn over in the Bay Area annually. It wants the replacements to be electric starting in 2027. It offers these rationales: Along with an electric-heating mandate to begin in 2029, it “will avoid an estimated 37 to 85 premature deaths per...
