Of the new single-family homes completed in 2000, 70% had natural gas heat, according to the American Gas Association’s (AGA’s) 2000 Residential Natural Gas Market Survey. Electric heat was found in 27% of homes, with heating oil at 3%.
The survey reported that more than one of every 10 new natural gas residential customers in 2000 converted to natural gas from electricity, heating oil, or other energy sources.