On "Electric Heating Gains Momentum in New Homes"

This is real market shift, but the headline hides what matters: most of those units are probably heat pumps, and a solid chunk are probably still backup resistance heat in mixed systems. The point isn't that electric is winning—it's that builders discovered heat pumps work in new construction where you can design around them and that the economics now favor them over gas installs in states with favorable utility rates. For shops still betting on gas service dominance, this is a wake-up call that the retrofit and replacement market is where your actual business lives, because new-build specs are getting locked in and you won't touch those jobs for fifteen years. Learn heat pump mechanics if you haven't already, because the service side of this transition is just starting.