Author Archives: Will Brownsberger

This post attempts to summarize the environmental and consumer considerations for people seeking to electrify heating in a home.

We can expect material improvement of heat pump efficiency over the next few years. It may make sense for some homeowners, especially those who heat with gas and who do not have an immediate need to replace their heating system, to wait for the next generation of heat pumps.

Noisy and conflicting data cast doubt on my previous estimate of heat performance in my home.

As we consider heat pumps we need to be clear about which framework we are thinking from. This post identifies three alternative frameworks, identifies the quantitative questions relevant to each framework, and discusses the state of our understanding of those questions in each framework. Possible frameworks include: In every framework, the analysis of heat pumps …

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The slow pace is the most commonly shared concern about our building electrification strategy. We are not doing heat pump conversions nearly fast enough to hit our climate goals and it is not obvious that we can sufficiently accelerate the process.