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Climate. You're not going to need gas heating in Florida when it's cold for only a short time of the year.
Makes sense for Florida! I expected the opposite on the West coast though
Electricity is more expensive out west than in the deep South. Also there's more oil and gas wells nearby lowering the transport/delivery costs.
Do people in Southern California even need to heat their homes? Even in the Pacific Northwest close to the ocean (like Portland/Seattle) it doesn’t get below freezing much unless you’re at a higher elevation, so electric can still be adequate.
Electric heating also works great basically everywhere else, too. Actually climate has very little to do with it in most cases and if there’s any non-manipulative reason(gas companies are really bad for this) it’s to do with what infrastructure makes the most sense.
In places like Québec we have electric heating because hydro makes electricity pretty cheap. Up north in Nunavut they will often have big tanks on the property and a truck will come by to refill them.
Infrastructure definitely contributes to what's going to be used. Good call.
I thought at least south Florida had no need for heating.
I’ve been told that not only does it occasionally freeze in Florida but that houses were essentially uninsulated. Before a/c, there was no reason to insulate in the south.
Electric heat also has the advantage of nothing to maintain. You can have your baseboard heating just sit there most of the time, but it will still come on the rare times you need it