Is Electrification Worth It in Texas?

Texas is weird.

Your electricity comes from a deregulated market where rates swing wildly depending on which retail provider you picked. Summer cooling loads are brutal—100°F days from June through September. But heating? You might use your furnace 20 days a year. Natural gas is dirt cheap here thanks to the Permian Basin. So the standard heat pump pitch doesn't really apply.

Here's the move: If you live in a hot zone like Houston or San Antonio and your AC is dying, get a heat pump. You're buying AC anyway, and the heating is basically free. But if you're in the Panhandle with a working gas furnace? The economics get murky fast.