Heat Pumps & Floating Wind To Lead Zero Emissions Campaign In Maine
Several years ago, the state of Maine embarked on an ambitious program to install 100,000 heat pumps throughout the state by 2025. The idea was part of a push by the state to lower its carbon emissions. The furnaces and boilers used to heat most homes in the state are fueled by heating oil or propane, which send carbon dioxide up the chimney when in operation.
Heat pumps are ready to go mainstream across the U.S. to replace the fossil-fuel systems “that we’ve used for the last 100 years,” said Michael Stoddard, executive director of. In February of this year, Maine experienced some of the lowest temperatures seen in the state over the past 50 years, with windchills falling to -60˚F. Efficiency Maine checked in with heat pump owners across the state to see how they were faring.
It’s all well and good to promote heat pumps, but somebody has to be able to advise homeowners what the correct heat pump is for their home and install it. To increase the number of qualified heat pump specialists in the state, the Maine Community College System developed training programs for heat pump installers in 2019. Today, those programs are providing the technicians the state will need to reach its new goal of an additional 170,000 heat pumps by 2027.
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