I had to replace my hot water system a while back and was interested in changing gas to electric, but plumbers I talked to all tried to disuade me from it. In the end I changed from the existing large storage tank system which was here when I moved in and which was massively innefficient for the usage required. I didn't want another system that was heating up a big tank of water all the time for no reason, and also was under time pressure with no working hot water, so switched to an instantaneous gas system which has cut gas use by a huge amount (perhaps 25% of what it was), so this at least a more efficient system for now but it's put off getting rid of gas for a good few years. The only other gas appliance I have is a heater which is rarely used, cooking is electric.

the cynic in me says this recent 'abandon gas' media blitz is more to do with clouding the message so Australians don't get angry at our natural gas being sold cheaper to Japanese consumers then to us. The LNP/ALP cabal really screwed us on that.

I just hope that it doesn't become a culture war issue here like it has in America.

In the house that I'm renting it would mean replacing the gas hot water system and the stove.
That's not going to happen unless a law is passed forcing the owner to do so.

Not only would we need to swap out a gas heater, hot water, and a new stove, we would very likely need an upgraded electricity supply. Our old house has a 35A main breaker, maybe that is what was considered enough 53 years ago. I don't know what capacity the cable itself has though. Exactly how far would the carrot side of any such program go?

We built our house specifically to not have mains gas. Large double-glazed picture windows on the north side of the house, Solar and a Battery, decent insulation. Large capacity reverse cycle A/C with the condensers on the south side of the house.

The a week before handover, the Site Supervisor told us that they ‘mistakenly’ budgeted for “electrical assist” hot water instead of full electric. They would need to add Gas, but they would pay for the connection. We argued with them. They argued back. It escalated all the way to the CEO of the Building Company. The Site Supervisor kept insisting that it was impossible to have full electric hot water, that is was cost-prohibitive to install, cost-prohibitive to run and anyone who would not want gas hot water was a fucking idiot. The CEO explained to the Site Supervisor that his own house had Full electric, two Tesla Power-walls and an extensive solar array and hadn’t had to pay for Gas or Electricity since it was built. He then calmly fired the Site Supervisor and instructed the Regional Manager to authorise the Full electric hot water with no extra charge to us.

Here in WA, the focus needs to be on getting the power grid under control. There is currently not enough gas power generation... resulting in dirty diesel generators being spun up.

Given the WA grid can't handle current power demands, I don't think we'll be in a position to disconnect household gas for quite some time ☹

All I’ve got to get rid of is an old instant gas water heater and a gas cook top that isn’t very good. I would be very happy to. Been waiting for these federal incentives that we were promised last tear part of the greens deal of signing the price caps.

This requires legislations, with the gov officials mainly being self-interest serving (most country), we will all need to be French to make it happen