If you own your own home, chances are you spend a great deal of time in the kitchen either cooking for the family, entertaining guests, or simply hanging out with a friend or a loved one enjoying a hot coffee or a glass of chilled wine.
But nice, efficient kitchens and homes also require the latest and greatest in appliances.
Appliances, no matter how well manufactured, will eventually break down. That’s where home appliance warranty plans come in.
Says Cinch Home Services, a home warranty company, why would you need an appliance warranty for your kitchen?
For the simple reason that when a breakdown occurs due to normal wear and tear, you could find yourself paying hundreds if not thousands out of pocket for a replacement.
But for only about $30 per month, you can guarantee that your appliance will be replaced for no additional cost to you.
It’s with this in mind, that the electric kitchen and the electric home of the future is already upon us.
Like green electric cars, the all-electric home seems to be catching on so fast, that the gas stove and gas fireplace might just become relics of the past.
According to a new report by Canary Media, the future of high-efficiency, all-electric, grid interactive houses is here, or so the recent CES 2023 event in Las Vegas would suggest.
Said to be a huge extravaganza, the CES has been a long-time showcase featuring high-tech consumer electronics, which includes the latest and greatest in smart, home-automated systems, electronic appliances, and energy controls.
Global Electric Equipment
One of the CES featured displays came from one of the technology and global electric equipment giants, Schneider Electric.
On display were EV chargers, batteries, hybrid inverters, kitchen appliances, and the latest in smart electric panels.
Just like the panels of their competitors, smart panels are said to allow homeowners to control and monitor their electricity demands at the circuit level via their smartphone app.
It allows you to switch between battery power and the grid. It also is said to keep electrical loads well under the limits of household utility or wiring for grid service.
You can even add Wi-Fi-connected “smart plugs” which are said to give you even more discrete control over your electrical energy output.
This is said to keep your energy bill in check while you help keep your environment carbon free. If you save up enough energy, you have the right to sell it back to the electric company.
Electric Building Blocks of the Future Today
These new all electric products and other such machines as smart electric stoves, ovens, microwave ovens, and even toasters, which were showcased at the CES 2023 are now considered the building blocks of the future home.
This is a home that efficiently, cools, heats, powers, cooks, utilizing electricity rather than carbon producing fossil fuels, whether or not your power is provided by the traditional grid or your roof-mounted solar panels.
The home of the future that’s here today can store electricity in batteries which can electrify your entire kitchen while you’re charging up for your EV.
Conceptually, you and your neighbors can divide up mini-electrical grids by sharing wind, solar, and other non-carbon producing power solutions.
The Electric Home Can’t Come Soon Enough
Says Schneider’s VP for Innovation, only about 10 percent of the homes in the U.S. possess any type of electrical storage or solar advanced high-tech, much less a completely electric kitchen.
But he claims that utility companies, electrical contractors, and homebuilders are already realizing the inevitability of the electrical transformation.
He adds that it’s a transformation which cannot come soon enough.
The burning of fossil fuels, including those used for gas stoves and gas fireplaces, account for more than 10 percent of U.S. carbon emissions, or so states the green think-tank RMI.
This stat is said to make the conversion to electric heating of primary importance for the decarbonization of homes, despite the fact that electric baseboard heat can be very expensive.
According to the green advocacy group, Rewiring America, if you combine the non-zero carbon emission home with CO2 that’s burned by vehicles along with the carbon-emitting electricity that can be easily replaced by rooftop solar panels, the data for the carbon emission producing home spikes to more than the massive majority of the U.S.’s total.
But electrifying your kitchen and your entire home is a fluid work-in-progress.
Now, if only China and India were to take a hint from those in the U.S. who believe the electric, non-carbon producing home has arrived.
It’s all about the education and the willingness of people to embrace change and look forward to a greener, healthier planet for your children and grandchildren.