we waste our energy on hot water and pumping for irrigation.  Should have gone solar or electric point of delivery.  Now we'll have to buy some PV instead.  If energy gets tight enough, we'll let the yard die back in summer and replace what doesn't survive with something else.

We are trying to minimize our footprint.  Paid 3X for an extremely high efficiency pool circulation pump.  Only pulls 200 watts vs. more like 2000 for what the builder was going to install.