Home heat pumps could cut pollution and save money

Deploying residential heat pumps more widely across the United States has the potential to help reduce carbon pollution while also saving homeowners money, according to a new study.

However, in most parts of the country the electricity grid will have to get cleaner and electric heat pumps will have to get cheaper before these devices become both environmentally and financially compelling, says Parth Vaishnav of the Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability.

Here, Vaishnav talks about the benefits of heat pumps, some of the main impediments to having more households use them, and the findings of a new study in the journal Environmental Research Letters:

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