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I am grandfathered in to some extent, but I chose to run a credit rather than get a check at the end of the year. We keep trying to burn up all our propane so we can have the tank removed, since all we use propane for now is cooking. When that happens, I have some induction burners ready to use. They are much more sophisticated than gas burners, like so much control you could practically do sous vide on them. Or leave a teflon pan on one of them all day without burning it up. They also heat a saucepan faster than a big gas burner, which is hard to believe but I saw a video on YouTube! I also have an electric convection oven that can cook two 15" pizzas, or anything we need to cook.
So when we finally run out of propane, our electricity use will rise a bit. It might not though: I'm getting a new flash electric water heater tomorrow that lets you set a maximum temperature so it can act as a booster. During the winter, our cold water comes out of the ground cold enough this wattage water heater can only raise about 1 gallon per minute to comfortable shower temperature. But I'm going to build a very simple solar water heater to keep a 250 galloon IBC of water at about 90 degrees. This will have no direct contact with our domestic water. The IBC stores heat, not water. The domestic water will flow through a bunch of PEX tubing inside the IBC to preheat the water heater input. That should lower the water-heating power use quite a lot.