ELECTRIC HOME HEATING & COOLING WITH HEAT PUMPS

There are multiple all-electric or electric hybrid methods to heat your home in the cold winters and cool your home in the hot summers. Think that you can’t heat your home with all electric options in a northern climate? Not only are many Rochester area residents already using all-electric heat pumps for their HVAC, Maine, another northern state with similarly cold winters, is showing us what’s possible. Maine is on their way to having 100,000 heat pump HVAC systems installed across the state.

AIR SOURCE HEAT PUMPS

The technology that’s growing in popularity for home heating and cooling is heat pumps. Despite the name, heat pumps can be used for heating and air conditioning. Heat pumps have an outdoor condenser that might look like a standard air conditioner. When it’s hot outside, your heat pump works like a standard air conditioner and moves heat out of your home. When it’s cold outside, the heat pump outdoor unit gathers heat from outside and moves it into the house.

Heat pump technology has progressed dramatically with many brands able to gather heat down to sub-zero temperatures.

Heat pumps can also be paired with supplementary or 2nd stage heat for the times a year that temps reach a point that heat pump heating is no longer efficient.

GEOTHERMAL HEAT PUMPS

Air source heat pumps can work down to very cold temperatures, but may need to work a little harder as outside temperatures get lower.

Geothermal heat pumps use the relatively constant temperature of the earth to provide heat in the winter and remove heat and cool the home in summer.

BENEFITS OF HEAT PUMPS FOR HOME HEATING & COOLING

• Heat pumps offer the flexibility to replace a standard furnace in a traditional central system or use a mini-split system that allows you to have a ductless, independent system in different areas of your home.

• Innovation is continuing to improve the technology with the ability to efficiently work down to lower temps.

• Remove indoor combustion fumes and the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.

INCENTIVES & PROGRAMS AVAILABLE

• Federal Incentives

• People’s Energy Cooperative Rebates

• Rochester Public Utilities Rebates

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