Nothing quite drives home the horrors of climate change like forest fires and wildfire smoke. We living on the West Coast have had a couple more years to experience the nightmare that the Midwest and East Coast are experiencing for the second time in 3 years. I’ll never forget 2017 … [continued]
Split heat pump water heaters (HPWH), where the water tank is separated from the compressor, are having a moment. After a decade of just having one model in the US, we have two new technologies that entered the market in the last year and a prize that will announce the … [continued]
It’s always fun and inspiring to see how other cultures are finding their way out of fossil fuels and towards a resilient, renewable future. This summer, while traveling in Greece, I saw very similar net zero technologies and strategies to those we have in the US (which center around PV, … [continued]
I try to interview every manufacturer that brings a new or refreshed heat pump water heater (HPWH) to market. My nerdy thought is that we in the cleantech space should be as up to speed on new, efficient water heaters the way we know about the latest model of Rivian, … [continued]
2025 was a good year for heat pump water heaters (HPWHs). In our annual State of the Heat Pump Water Heater Market report, we talk about how residential and commercial manufacturers released more new and updated products last year than any other year in the product’s history. Five new residential … [continued]
These days it feels amazing to be net zero. With gas prices topping $4/gallon nationally for the first time in four years, natural gas (aka methane) prices up 11% over last year, and even electricity prices rising 9% due in part to data centers, my family can breathe easy knowing … [continued]
All this year we’re exploring why we love heat pump water heaters. On Valentine’s Day, we talked about how HPWHs are so lovable because they save so much money on utility bills. For Earth Day, we want to talk about how much we love HPWHs for cleaning our air. Yes, … [continued]
Heat pump water heaters (HPWH) are one of the key technologies to save this troubled little planet of ours. They are 3–6 times more efficient than other water heaters, save hundreds of dollars on utility bills and 1 ton of CO2 every year compared to water heaters that burn fossil … [continued]
There are a lot of heat pump water heaters (HPWH) that have come to market recently. At the beginning of this decade, only a handful of manufacturers were making this hyper-efficient water heating product, and now we count 13 different brands of just tanked water heaters with more brands and … [continued]
In early February I had the opportunity to travel to Las Vegas to the AHR Expo. For those of you who have never heard of it, it’s a ginormous 50,000-person expo focused primarily on space and water heating systems, a Mecca of sorts for a heat pump dork like me. … [continued]
