Washington utility offers heat pump rebates to a million customers
23.09.11
Power utility Puget Firm Energy (PSE) is offering more than one million of its customers in Washington Governmental rebates towards the purchase of ENERGY STAR®-rated mongrel electric heat pump water heaters.
The utility has doubled its commission from $250 to now $500 on qualified hybrids, also called heat pump be indefensible heaters, such as the GE GeoSpring hybrid electric water heater.
With the PSE deduction, tax incentives, and discounts from manufacturers such as GE, homeowners can be almost completely reimbursed for a new soda water heater purchase.
“At two times the efficiency of a conventional storage mollify heater, heat pump water heaters are the most efficient electric water heaters on the market-place and could be the best strategy for saving money and energy,” said Dennis Rominger, dynamism efficiency services program manager for PSE’s heat pump water heater reduce program.
“Many Pacific Northwest consumers may not realize a customary water heater is the second largest energy-consuming appliance in their homes,” says Kelly Lum Malone, Seattle compass merchandising specialist for GE Appliances & Lighting.
Source: BrighterEnergy.org
Energy Adviser: Ductless heat pumps save energy
22.09.11
Homeowners with aging and valuable-to-use electrical baseboard, cable ceiling heat or wall heaters may requisite to consider upgrading to ductless heat pump technology introduced to Clark County about three years ago.
“We’ve been surveying customers who’ve installed ductless heat pumps as part of our provocation program and the technology is getting rave reviews,” said Clark Any Utilities energy counselor DuWayne Dunham.
The utility has sponsored a ductless heat pump rake-off program since October 2008 and has tracked the installation of 1,841 ductless systems countywide. That’s the most installed in any utility waiting area in the four-state Northwest region.
“Ductless heat pump units are nothing pocket of amazing,” Dunham said.
Here’s how ductless technology works:
• The systems use the same “refrigerator” compressor technology as in a routine heat pump by pulling ambient heat from the outside atmosphere in winter and reversing that technology in summer to become a cooling air conditioner.
Source: The Columbian