Massachusetts considers expanding effort to ban gas in new buildings | Lawmakers are weighing a bill that would allow 10 more cities and towns to prohibit the use of fossil fuels in new construction through an existing pilot program.

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1. The easiest of low-hanging fruit to pick. Building codes can easily ban gas in new construction, using heat pumps and better insulation rather than furnaces. You get a better building that pollutes less and saves money over time.

2. And they don’t even have [PG&E](https://abc7news.com/post/pg-e-receives-maximum-sentence-for-2010-san-bruno-explosion/1722674/) to worry about.

3. This will mean increased demand for electricity. What will Massachusetts do to increase the supply of renewable electricity? Without more supply, electricity will continue to get more expensive; it’s already 31 cents per kWh for residential last I checked. To make supply even more challenging, solar is very inefficient during winter, what with the few hours of sunlight and the sun being low in the sky during winter. I didn’t see anything in the article addressing supply.

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