And you should be thanking them for the incentives. With a heat pump you can install solar PV and thus have your own solar PV help eliminate part of your heating bill.
Modern heat pumps can now work down to very cold temperatures.
From article: “California, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Rhode Island”
I hate to be the voice of mild disagreement to that happy talk article. I live in cold climate NY and have a ducted Lennox heat pump. It heats and cools the house very well. But it’s not so great when the outside temperature is below 30F. I also have a Baxi high efficiency gas boiler and on-demand hot water. It heats the house during the coldest months. It is not going to be cheap or easy to replace these systems. I sincerely doubt that a replacement system will result in any utility savings over what I now pay. From what I can tell the tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act are $2000 for a heat pump. (underwhelming) The “rebates” are not up and running here yet. Those are means tested and aimed at lower income households. I’m not looking forward to shelling out $25,000+ to replace systems that are perfectly functional although I can see the day coming when I won’t have a choice. But when I look around my town and neighborhood I have a very hard time imagining those thousands of gas furnaces, stoves, hot water heaters, dryers, etc etc being replaced en masse starting very soon with 65% of current systems replaced by 2030. I sincerely doubt that most people here are aware they will be facing this major cost item soon. Let’s hope folks have that kind of money in a special HVAC replacement account ready to write those checks. And we hope the grid will have sufficient capacity to support all the new electrified systems. Most HVAC dealers here still advise for dual fuel systems or just replace a aging gas furnace with a new one. Maybe they are not yet with the program either? I am sure to be downvoted on this. I expect there won’t be universal happiness about all electrification that will seem forced. And expect political pushback when people realize how this will affect them. I’m sure some will be ok with it if they get a good deal and substantial incentives but it’s hard to see that happening for most of us.
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And you should be thanking them for the incentives. With a heat pump you can install solar PV and thus have your own solar PV help eliminate part of your heating bill.
Modern heat pumps can now work down to very cold temperatures.
From article: “California, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Rhode Island”
I hate to be the voice of mild disagreement to that happy talk article. I live in cold climate NY and have a ducted Lennox heat pump. It heats and cools the house very well. But it’s not so great when the outside temperature is below 30F. I also have a Baxi high efficiency gas boiler and on-demand hot water. It heats the house during the coldest months. It is not going to be cheap or easy to replace these systems. I sincerely doubt that a replacement system will result in any utility savings over what I now pay. From what I can tell the tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act are $2000 for a heat pump. (underwhelming) The “rebates” are not up and running here yet. Those are means tested and aimed at lower income households. I’m not looking forward to shelling out $25,000+ to replace systems that are perfectly functional although I can see the day coming when I won’t have a choice. But when I look around my town and neighborhood I have a very hard time imagining those thousands of gas furnaces, stoves, hot water heaters, dryers, etc etc being replaced en masse starting very soon with 65% of current systems replaced by 2030. I sincerely doubt that most people here are aware they will be facing this major cost item soon. Let’s hope folks have that kind of money in a special HVAC replacement account ready to write those checks. And we hope the grid will have sufficient capacity to support all the new electrified systems. Most HVAC dealers here still advise for dual fuel systems or just replace a aging gas furnace with a new one. Maybe they are not yet with the program either? I am sure to be downvoted on this. I expect there won’t be universal happiness about all electrification that will seem forced. And expect political pushback when people realize how this will affect them. I’m sure some will be ok with it if they get a good deal and substantial incentives but it’s hard to see that happening for most of us.