Looking to get some anecdotal experiences from someone living in a cold climate using a heat pump as their main source of heat.
Looking to get some anecdotal experiences from someone living in a cold climate using a heat pump as their main source of heat.
Honestly my hope is to be able to remove myself from the gas hookup. NG is fairly cheap where I live so it seems counter intuitive but my delivery charges are always far more than my actual usage costs. I’d love to be able to be free of that. Plus, I’d like to do my part and if I’m going to be spending extra money on delivery/admin charges for not much gas usage, I may as well spend it on electricity.
A noble goal for sure, I’m right there with you. I’m trying to go carbon free myself. The gas furnace is the last thing for me, and it’s mostly simply because the heat pump just won’t do it up to a certain point. I took the idea that reducing 90% of my emissions was better than not doing anything and staying on it.
I hold to my advice, heat pump will take care of 90% of your HVAC needs, with gas as a backup. Another way of thinking is what happens if there’s a -20 degree day and the power goes out? If anything, a gas furnace is a nice safety backup.
I think this winter my gas furnace has kicked on 3 times total so far, and those were only in the early hours of the morning on incredibly cold days. Everything else? Pure electric.