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Committee moves to plan focused outreach on electrification as reach-code and housing risks loom
Summary
Members agreed to pursue a deliberate outreach strategy to track electrification activity and promote heat-pump adoption, while noting possible legal challenges to local reach codes and the town's housing-element obligations.
Los Altos Hills committee members called for a focused outreach and tracking strategy to encourage residential electrification and to measure progress, while flagging legal and regulatory risks to local reach codes and housing planning.
Committee members said direct retailer incentives, like a Tennessee Valley Authority checkout discount program for heat-pump water heaters, have driven adoption elsewhere. "They had a $1,300 at-checkout discount on the heat pump water heater," one speaker said, and officials reported that the TVA program sold about "10,000" units after the…
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