Across the country, heat pumps are quietly replacing traditional furnaces and air conditioners as the default choice for new ...

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When the gas furnace suddenly stopped working at their house in Denver last winter—just before a polar vortex hit—Chad Fleck and Betsy Kummer decided that they wanted to replace the heater with an ...

Heat pumps promise cheaper, cleaner heating – but does the reality live up to the hype? We assess Octopus Energy’s Cosy system on cost, comfort and customer experience ...

These are the best whole-house heat pumps from Consumer Reports' tests. These heat pumps are more efficient and can save you money.

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 function similarly to refrigerators or air conditioners, which take warm air from one space and send it to another. In the winter, a heat pump transfers heat from the outdoors inside and, ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

Heat pumps and furnaces are both popular options for heating homes, but which is right for you depends on your area's climate and your preferences.

MIT alumnus Addison Stark has stepped in to change the centuries-old approach to producing ...

Both the government and Nesta assume that a home with a heat pump would disconnect from the gas grid, meaning that it would no longer need to pay the daily “standing charge” for gas. This currently ...

Heat pump permitting currently varies drastically across California’s 600 jurisdictions, with a patchwork of local requirements that make the system slow, expensive, and complex.