These States Are Basically Begging You to Get a Heat Pump::You need a heat pump, ASAP. Now nine states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of this climate superhero.
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By 2040, these states—California, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Rhode Island—are aiming for 90 percent of those shipments to be heat pumps.
The coalition’s announcement comes just months after the federal government doubled down on its own commitment to heat pumps, announcing $169 million in funding for the domestic production of the systems.
These are the states, and the article doesn’t seem to go into detail on what the actual programs are in each state. However, i only skimmed the article
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NGL hating in heat pumps is like hating on EVs because they need charged longer than it takes to fill up a tank of gas. Yes the use case is not exactly 1:1 to the existing system, but it’s an improvement for energy use and emissions overall. (Not saying you’re hating on heat pumps, just a general observation)
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Excellent… subsidize, and standardize regulations. This allows for upscale of production and investment in further improvement. This will make them better and cheaper… hooray!
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the federal government doubled down on its own commitment to heat pumps, announcing $169 million in funding
I am grateful the government is investing in this. I would like to see them even more, bilions
If they gave me an incentive that would be nice. As it stands, gas is cheaper than electric where we are at in California. It would take a huge amount of money for us to switch but I would like to.
You’re also completely at the whims of your power company for your heating/cooling needs. Here in Australia they privatised the electricity companies and our power bills are astronomical unless you are one of the fortunate few who own their own house and can install solar.
America’s basically never had public utilities to begin with. If you’re not at the whims of the electric company, you’re at the whims of the gas company. Which is sometimes the same one.
Yep. And that’s fine where I live because a lot of homes still run on oil heat, gas if you’re lucky.
Love to get a full heat pump system, but last quote we got was ~$30k before a $5k rebate from the state. Way out of our range. Would take a lot of years to get that back in savings vs the oil heat we have now. I really don’t like oil for a lot of reasons, environmental being own of them.
Getting a heat pump has been on my want-to-do list for years. But even though my furnace is aging, it still works so it’s been hard to justify while there were other issues going on. Accelerating adoption is only going to make the process easier when the time comes.
We had one installed this past summer. Went with a top of the line Bryant and I don’t have any regrets. This winter natural gas prices shot up and even on below freezing days, the heat pump just does its job at keeping the house a consistent temp.
