With sky-high electric rates in Mass., will consumers buy in to heat pumps?
While many homeowners say they’re happy with their purchase, and saw just slightly higher bills during cold months in recent ...
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Should I turn off a heat pump at night? No, and experts explain why the slow and low method will help you save on your energy bills
If you have a heat pump, you might already know that switching from a traditional gas boiler to an air or ground-source heat ...
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Granite Geek: Do heat pumps change the ‘turn down the thermostat at night to save energy’ equation?
The belated arrival of cold weather to New Hampshire has brought back the eternal home-heating question: Do you save energy ...
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Heat pumps are designed to operate when it’s still cold out. Really cold out.
The Globe reached out to heat pump owners to see how their systems fared in the bitter cold in February 2023. Here’s what we found. He stood at his kitchen sink Saturday morning, with all of New ...
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U.S. scientists building magnetocaloric heat pump with high system power density
Developed at the U. S. Ames National Laboratory, the novel magnetocaloric heat pump utilizes gadolinium as the working medium ...
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Octopus Energy report record interest in heat pumps
Octopus Energy have reported that in 2024 they received enquiries from more than 200,000 homeowners regarding the ...
Should you set your thermostat to ’emergency heat’ when weather is very cold?
Many thermostats have a setting called EM heat, emergency heat or auxiliary heat. You shouldn’t normally rely on it warm your house, but it’s useful when the thermostat’s regular settings aren’t ...
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System design for greenhouses relying on PV and ground source heat pump
Scientists at the Yaşar University in Turkey have developed a design concept for greenhouses relying on PV as an electricity source for LED lightin g and a heat pump used for heating and cooling ...