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There's a general quandary with energy which is that we want "clean" energy in the form of electricity from renewables.
At the moment, it's much more wasteful to use electricity than fossil fuels to do the same things (I think it's something like 3x more gas if you use an electric hob powered by electricity from a gas-fired power station to boil your water, compared with using a gas hob, all other things comparative).
But if we don't encourage take up of electricity, and build infrastructure for electricity, and reduce direct use of fossil fuels, how will the glorious renewable electricity future ever come?