The heat pumps could have massive implications for energy efficiency — Nicholson estimates that mobile home owners use 70 percent more energy than people who live in other types of housing.

Most heat pumps fall into the broad categories of ducted or ductless, but there are also a number of subcategories you should be aware of when choosing a heat pump for your home.

Heat pumps offer a more efficient way to keep homes warm in winter and have been touted as a key technology in the fight against climate change. Sales of the machines in Europe grew to 3 million ...

Oct. 1—Heat pumps are useful for keeping warm in Maine. But they can't replace a home's central heating system on the coldest winter days, especially in an old house. That was what Kathy ...

Ithaca's program to install heat pumps in mobile homes is one of the first in the country. “We’ve had a lot of housing conversations for a long time in this county, but nobody ever talks about ...

If you want to heat or cool your home, a heat pump seems like the logical solution. Here's everything you need to know to decide whether getting one makes sense for your home.

A ductless heat pump, also known as a ductless mini-split system or ductless air conditioning, is a HVAC system that, as its name suggests, does not require the use of ducts to operate.

A study by Rocky Mountain Institute modeled the home temperature and cost of running no AC, a typical AC system, a high-capacity system and a heat pump in the three-day Seattle heat wave of 2021.

The first heat pumps to pass the U.S. Department of Energy's Cold Climate Heat Pump Challenge might be in customers' homes by the end of the year. The DOE's challenge to industry was to build ...

This was one of the reasons Michelle Whitmore, 60, a former monogrammer at L.L. Bean, signed up for a pilot program that installed a free heat pump in her mobile home two years ago. Ms. Whitmore ...