Clean, Sustainable Electric Energy

Installing an air-source heat pump could reduce your home’s GHGs by up to 6 tonnes in one year!

When most people think of heating their home with electricity, they think of electric resistance heat. Common forms of electric resistance heat that are typically electric baseboard and electric furnace heaters. It can become extremely expensive to operate, even in areas that have low electricity rates.

Heat pumps present a huge jump in efficiency when usign electricity. What's the difference? Electric resistance heat uses heating elements similar to those found in your toaster as a heat source whereas a heat pump uses compressors to capture the heat in the outdoor air and transfer it into your home.

Electric resistance heat is constantly 100% efficient. This means that for every unit of electricity you put into your system, you’ll get one unit of heat out of it. On the other hand, the an Air Source Heat Pump operates at efficiencies from about 200%-400%. There is a tremendous difference in operating cost when comparing the two systems. Here’s an example:

An average home will require about 100,000,000 Btu’s/heating season. To get this amount of heat from an electric resistance system, you would be using about 29,291 KWH per heating year. At a cost of 10 cents per KWH, this would lead to a cost of $2,929 per year.

To get the same amount of heat from the Acadia™, you’ll need to use approximately 10,849 KHW per heating season. Using 10 cents per KWH again, that’s a yearly heating cost of $1,085.

That's a savings of 67%

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