He’s offering rebates to California households that will help him meet his target of 6 million new residential heat pumps by 2030. Energy nerds that we are, we spent a Saturday night working through this heat pump climate impact math. Here in California, targeting heat pumps at new construction and homes where folks need cooling now to adapt to intense heat today makes sense. “Fighting Climate Change with Heat Pumps”. Heat pump energy use emissions: Assuming our furnace is 80% efficient, and that whatever heat pump we might buy would have a coefficient of performance of 3.3, we would use 1,548 kWh of electricity per year to heat with a heat pump.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 06, 2022 19:18 UTC