Electricity is essentially an abstraction layer that decouples the source of energy from the consumer.

Even if you want to remain 100% fossil fuel dependent, it still makes a lot more sense, outside of some industrial uses, to generate electricity with those fossil fuels and then use the electricity to power your actual device, whether it’s your air conditioning unit or your automobile, than to ship liquid gas to hundreds of thousands of gas stations all over or build pipes to send gaseous natural gas to every house.

Not only is it more efficient, as any abstracted system, it allows far more flexibility and resilience due to that flexibility.

Heat pump sales rise across Europe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012003

Iran war sparks renewables boom as Europeans rush to buy solar, heat pumps, EVs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601310

Panel I've bought 15 months ago is 20% more expensive now.