Erin Gobler is a personal finance writer based in Madison, Wisconsin. She writes about topics including budgeting, student loans, credit, mortgages, investing and insurance. Her work has been ...

Conventional heat pumps have been heating and cooling homes for decades. In fact, about one in three homes in the United States already uses one. However, heat pumps are mostly found in southern and ...

Heat pumps, long overlooked in the world of heating, are attracting new interest from companies and consumers as momentum builds to cut the use of fossil fuels. Unlike furnaces fueled by natural gas ...

Lexie is a former Staff Writer at Forbes Home and has over 6 years of professional experience as a writer and editor in the home improvement space. She's previously worked at sites such as HomeAdvisor ...

When Jack Schniepp’s furnace began to fail this winter in his two-story Bend home, he and his wife decided they’d tear it out and replace it with a heat pump. “We wanted to do it for climate-related ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. San Francisco Bay Area regulators have banned the future sale of gas-powered ...

If you want to heat or cool your home, a heat pump seems like the logical solution. Here's everything you need to know to decide whether getting one makes sense for your home. Andrew King is an ...

Heat pumps are one of the most effective ways to shrink your home’s carbon footprint and your utility bills at a time of rising electricity and natural gas costs. The technology can heat and cool ...

Cost: $10,712 for heat pump system, $7,500 for insulation and $7,150 for electrical panel upgrade and wiring Incentives: None for heat pump; $550 rebate for wall and attic insulation from Energy Trust ...

U.S shipments of gas furnaces, a/c units, and air-source heat pumps all fell sharply in June compared to the same month last year, while shipments of oil furnaces and residential water heaters were up ...

Home heating contributes to nearly a third of the average U.S. utility bill — more than any other system in a home. To make matters worse, home heating costs are on the rise. The National Energy ...