How to Use heat pump in a Sentence

heat pump

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  • That puts the payback time on the upfront costs of the heat pump system between four and seven years.
    — Stephanie Bouchard, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Heavy use of air conditioning in the summer and electric heat pumps and electric space heaters in winter.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 29 July 2019
  • The reason for the heat is high pressure off the coast of the United States, which is acting like a heat pump.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
  • Voters worried about the costs to drivers, and the costs to homeowners of replacing their gas boilers with expensive new heat pumps.
    — The Economist, 9 July 2019
  • Most consumers aren’t going to run out and buy an electric heat pump until their current HVAC breaks.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The money can be used to deploy a wide array of clean energy technologies — from solar and wind farms to EV chargers and heat pumps.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 22 July 2024
  • Alabama Power says its customers now use the most power on cold winter mornings when electric heat pumps compete with hair dryers and water heaters.
    — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 16 Mar. 2020
  • The actual situation now is: 1) Many appliances now use heat pumps, in which most of the heat is extracted from the latent heat in the cold outside air.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 25 July 2019
  • Money will also go to Alaskan coastal communities to replace residential oil burning systems with electric heat pumps.
    — Sarah Raza, Washington Post, 22 July 2024
  • Local climate hawks increasingly are pushing electric heat pumps as a low-carbon alternative, arguing the newer brands are able to withstand the region’s long winters.
    — Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American, 25 Nov. 2019
  • In Japan, heat pumps constitute a third of the space heating sector, and the government promotes consumer education and higher product quality.
    — John Fialka, Scientific American, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The group's research shows it is 6% cheaper to retrofit an existing home that has an electric air conditioner and gas furnace to a single electric heat pump that can blow hot and cold, depending on the season.
    — Ryan Randazzo, azcentral, 12 Feb. 2020
  • One of the easiest ways to boost this is with a heat pump.
    — Gabrielle Hondorp, Popular Mechanics, 2 July 2022
  • In the summer, that means the heat pump will transfer heat from your cool house to the warm outdoors.
    — Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The heat pump sucks that energy in and uses it to warm a chilly house in the winter, or cool it in the summer.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Even in Poland, which has clung to coal, installations of heat pumps soared by 120% last year.
    — Melissa Eddy, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
  • So the clock on the heat pump revolution is ticking fast.
    — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 29 June 2021
  • There are overall caps for each upgrade — $8,000 for a heat pump, for instance.
    — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022
  • In most cases, low-income households will get a new heat pump for free.
    — John F. Wasik, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Homes and buildings need to change to electric heat pumps for space and water heating.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • But there are plenty of other good reasons to invest in a heat pump, too.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2021
  • So next up is looking at those new heat pumps that function well even in very cold weather.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 Feb. 2024
  • That overall cap doesn’t include heat pumps and heat pump water heaters, though.
    — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022
  • One of the most common and important technologies in a green home is an air-source heat pump.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2021
  • What are the alternatives to gas and what exactly is a heat pump?
    — Laura Smith-Spark, CNN, 1 Oct. 2021
  • In fact, more than 40 percent of new single-family homes in the U.S. are now heated and/or cooled with a heat pump.
    — Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Nine states inked an agreement today to promote heat pump sales.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Teslas have come with a proprietary heat pump tech since 2021.
    — Aarian Marshall matt Simon, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Batteries to keep the lights on after dark are coming down in cost, as are electric cars and home heat pumps.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • Whether a heat pump makes sense for your home will depend on several variables.
    — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022

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