We spoke with a homeowner in Pennsylvania who tracked their heating and cooling costs for the past nine years. The home was built in the late 1950s and used an air conditioner and heating oil ...

First, some basics: A heat pump is a type of technology that works almost identically to an air conditioner or refrigerator, both of which pull heat out of a space to make it cooler.

S ound levels are claimed to be as low as 59 dBA. The IDS Plus heat pump has a SEER2 of 18 and an HSPF2 of 8.5, while sound levels are as low as 56 dBa. “This system combines Bosch’s ...

The Challenge was launched in 2021 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in order to facilitate the development, testing, and commercialization of heat pumps that could deliver as much heat as needed ...

“Heat pumps have been heating homes across Scandinavia for decades and in Sweden, heat pump penetration is at 60 per cent with only one per cent of the country's carbon emissions coming from ...

Unsurprisingly, lavish heat-pump subsidies overwhelmingly favor richer households. Since 2021, less than 8 percent of heat pumps have been installed in disadvantaged communities. And according to UCLA ...

The DOE’s Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Challenge was launched in 2021 to improve the performance of traditional heat pumps in extremely cold temperatures. Bosch worked alongside Oak Ridge ...

However, because the heat pump is a £1050 option, we found that if you’re using the public charging network and paying 79p for every kWh of electricity, you’ll need to do 85,000 miles before ...

And in Vienna, a series of heat pumps that can warm about 56,000 households opened in December. The city plans to double the capacity of the plant in the coming years.

Finland is building the world’s largest heat pump to warm homes in Helsinki. The air-to-water heat pump is being installed to help decarbonise the city’s district heating system.

All air-source heat pumps do this—and they can glean heat even on cold days. But this heat pump is special. It is one of the most efficient installations of its kind in the country.