Historically, having a washer and a dryer in your house requires “a hookup.” You need hot and cold water for the washer as well as a drain for wastewater. For the dryer, you need either gas or — in ...

Heat pumps offer a net-zero heating and cooling solution, powered by electricity from renewable sources. Governments worldwide are phasing out gas boilers and introducing incentives to promote the ...

Heat pumps are more efficient than gas boilers or traditional HVAC systems, saving users hundreds of dollars annually.

"I never shut them off all winter." Homeowner shares honest experience surviving -36 degree cold snap with a heat pump: 'It's ...

STANDISH, ME - SEPTEMBER 25: Aaron Sinclair, of Dave's World, installs a heat pump at the home of Roland and Dale Bois on September 25, 2018. Sinclair, who has worked installing heat pumps for two ...

Scientists from Chongqing University in China have designed a solar-air composite dual-source heat pump system for water heating in self-built rural houses in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region of China ...

Chinese scientists have unveiled a new ultra-high-temperature heat pump with no moving parts that could one day allow ...

New York joined eight other states in an agreement to ensure heat pumps make up 65 percent of residential heating and cooling equipment sales by 2030. The technology is a green alternative to ...

Seattle’s heat pump rebate program led to more than 300 homes converting from oil heating to an electric-powered heat pump in ...

Scientists from China have developed a novel optimization method for medium-depth ground source heat pumps, using an improved chaos particle swarm optimization. They coupled it with either a heat ...

The grants range from $4,000 to $8,500 per household, depending on income, and are intended to reduce home heating costs while also reducing pollution from burning fossil fuels.

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