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

New survey casts doubt on heat pump savings as two-thirds report losses - One green energy chief says that people are being ...

From Japan to China and the US to Scandinavia, heating with air conditioning has long been standard practice. Some 2.3 million new heat pumps were installed in Europe in 2024, with 40% of these made ...

Ashlyn is one of Forbes Home's in-house writers and a former civil engineer-turned content writer with over six years experience. Until recently, Ashlyn focused on creating content for Forbes Home as ...

The prevalence of heat pumps is snowballing – but how do they actually heat your home, and do they save money in the long run ...

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 ...

Electricity prices have been climbing faster than inflation in many regions, raising questions about how contractors should present high-efficiency equipment to customers. For heat pumps, the ...

Heat pumps work best when they’re part of a well-prepared home, to be installed when the building envelope is attended to; ...

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 ...

Following its 2021 residential Cold Climate Heat Pump (CCHP) challenge, the Department of Energy (DOE) recently launched a similar program for commercial rooftop heat pumps. The DOE’s Commercial ...