Heat pumps can reduce carbon emissions associated with heating buildings, and many states have set aggressive targets to ...

Both the government and Nesta assume that a home with a heat pump would disconnect from the gas grid, meaning that it would no longer need to pay the daily “standing charge” for gas. This currently ...

Researchers from the United Kingdom’s University of Strathclyde have analyzed how heat pump rollout could mitigate high energy prices. The research team used a CGE model to evaluate economic outcomes ...

Across the country, heat pumps are quietly replacing traditional furnaces and air conditioners as the default choice for new ...

Shipments of residential water heaters, warm-air furnaces, and air-source heat pumps climbed in March, over March of 2024, while shipments of central a/c units fell, the latest AHRI figures show. The ...

Heat pumps run on electricity instead of gas. They warm buildings by absorbing and amplifying heat from the air, ground, or water. They are widely seen as the best way of cutting emissions of carbon ...

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 ...

How much energy and money do heat pumps really save? - The real-world savings from heat pumps depend on what you’re replacing ...

Are heat pumps worth installing in your home? The Independent’s guide - This guide looks at prices, efficiency and the ...

Future generations will marvel at the ridiculous ways we’ve been keeping warm. With a furnace, you’re inefficiently burning toxic, planet-warming gas. In a big city like New York, your building might ...