Mastodawn

yesterday spent hours n hours n hours [how very virginia woolf of me!] doing heavy research into potential local options for said domestic electrification. soooooooo heavy, soooooo demoralising, so sword of damoclean [coz severe peopling is now imminent, & i just don't wanna!]. nsw has its #ESS [energy savings scheme] & #HEER [home energy efficiency retrofits] programme [with confusingly vague interrelationship, but anyhoo afaict, both aimed at application by vendor individuals & businesses, not directly the individual home-owner, who is thus responsible for discovering if their prospective vendors are participants, jfc]. initial research disappointing in that am struggling to find actual businesses with raison d'etre to take care of "project managing" a home's conversion, so instead atm it seems i might have to deal with one mob for a heat-pump HWH, but an entirely different mob for the RCAC heat-pump space-heating, & dog-knows atm if i would also hafta find & coordinate a sparky. i hate this! why have businesses not seen the attraction of providing all-in-one capability? so much fucken peopling gonna be needed; i feel so bleak.

#electrification #electrifyeverything #electrifyeverythingwecan #renewableenergy #heatpumps #rcac #dropbearshit #depression #socialanxiety #socialphobia #dropbearelectrification

mmalc 1d ago

"How did you transition to electrification?"
"Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."

Some have been making the geopolitical argument for reducing fossil fuel reliance for a couple of decades. Slow uptake until now, but there's a real irony in its acceleration being driven in no small part by #Trump's Iranian Excursion, from an administration that actively opposes renewables. A shame the transition didn't start sooner.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2026/02/13/energy-a-balanced-choice-despite-populist-pressure_6750460_23.html

#Electrification
#HeatPumps
#EVs
#USPol
#EUPol

France's energy mix: A balanced choice despite populist pressure

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has published France's multi-year energy plan, which primarily bets on nuclear-generated electricity. The plan also enshrines the idea that renewables will be essential to France's energy mix in the years to come.

Le Monde

Tina M Casey 4d ago

Cost-cutting heat pump startup launches California business with direct-to-consumer sales, labor-saving remote systems, and vertical integration.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/03/heat-pump-california-jetson-home-electrification-startups/

#heatpumps #energyefficiency #energy #homeimprovement #hvac #electrification #energysavings #energyconservation #california #us #startups #innovation #investors #esginvesting #esg #us

Up To 50% Off On A New Heat Pump Installation, Says Startup

The US home electrification startup Jetson Home has launched an ambitious plan to expand its heat pump business in California.

CleanTechnica

Tina M Casey 4d ago

Cost-cutting heat pump startup launches California business with direct-to-consumer sales, labor-saving remote systems, and vertical integration.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/03/heat-pump-california-jetson-home-electrification-startups/

#heatpumps #energyefficiency #energy #homeimprovement #hvac #electrification #energysavings #energyconservation #california #us #startups #innovation #investors #esginvesting #esg #us

Up To 50% Off On A New Heat Pump Installation, Says Startup

The US home electrification startup Jetson Home has launched an ambitious plan to expand its heat pump business in California.

CleanTechnica

Droppie 4d ago

thinking i'm gonna dust off my shelved notes about investigating converting my house space-heating from gas to RCAC heat-pump/s, & gas storage HWH to heat-pump storage. leave the gas cooktop alone for the time being, as those first two are the biggest consumers & emitters [& i still resent having to replace all my cookware!]. still have no desire nor intention to go for solar & battery [abiding fear of hailstones, & big antipathy to me contributing to landfill later when putative panels need replacing... & tbh, i never have shaken off my distrust of cheap inverters &/or dodgy wiring causing house fires].

i've not yet done any numbers, but i posit the nascent concept of the glimmer of an idea of a plan is attractive to me:
- ethically given i hate being cold but also hate me remaining a climate vandal
- economically wrt operating costs, even sans-solar, coz of consumer heat-pumps commonly achieving CoP 4 & maybe up to 6, AND coz as the grid more & more "greens-up", & legacy gas network increasingly death-spirals, comparative prices of kWh vs MJ are only going one way
- strongly suspect RoI wrt capital costs likely to be utterly unviable, yet the project still remaining attractive to me for the prior two items

the most obvious challenge i know involved here, is i somehow have to overcome my social-anxiety/phobia with all the close-quarter peopling necessitated if i proceed 😱

#electrification #electrifyeverything #electrifyeverythingwecan #renewableenergy #heatpumps #rcac #dropbearshit #depression #socialanxiety #socialphobia #dropbearelectrification

Tina M Casey 5d ago

Another heat pump startup launches in the US, with cost-cutting business model to boost sales.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/03/heat-pump-california-jetson-home-electrification-startups/

#heatpumps #energyefficiency #energy #homeimprovement #electrification #energysavings #energyconservation #california #us #startups #innovation #investors #esginvesting #esg

Up To 50% Off On A New Heat Pump Installation, Says Startup

The US home electrification startup Jetson Home has launched an ambitious plan to expand its heat pump business in California.

CleanTechnica

Tina M Casey 5d ago

Another heat pump startup launches in the US, with cost-cutting business model to boost sales.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/03/heat-pump-california-jetson-home-electrification-startups/

#heatpumps #energyefficiency #energy #homeimprovement #electrification #energysavings #energyconservation #california #us #startups #innovation #investors #esginvesting #esg

Up To 50% Off On A New Heat Pump Installation, Says Startup

The US home electrification startup Jetson Home has launched an ambitious plan to expand its heat pump business in California.

CleanTechnica

Akshay Jun 1

Industrial Electrification has much more potential than commonly realised, argues Jan Rosenow.

But it would require strong, coordinated policy support, through tax reform, subsidies, carbon pricing, and infrastructure.

https://janrosenow.substack.com/p/industry-from-hard-to-abate-to-ready

#Climate #Energy #Electrification #Industry #Renewables #HeatPumps #EUPol

Industry: from hard-to-abate to ready-to-electrify

How far can industry run on electricity?Much further and faster than the 'hard-to-abate' label suggests.

Bright Spots

Dianora (Diane Bruce)May 31

https://rmi.org/insight/tracking-the-heat-pump-water-heater-market-in-the-united-states/

17% more heatpumps sales than gas furnace.

I guess we are in the curve not ahead of it but still. :) we went heatpump vs. gas furnace when our oil furnace died.

It made sense because coincidentally our central air had died too.

#Ottawa #Heatpumps #ClimateChange

Tracking the Heat Pump & Water Heater Market in the United States

This data hub spotlights publicly available national HVAC and water heating shipment data.

RMI

Tina M Casey May 30

More heat pumps for the USA: lease plans and automated permitting systems.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/05/29/heat-pumps-us-startup-quilt-lease-finance/

#heatpumps #hvac #heating #cooling #buildings #energyefficient #energy #efficiency #decarbonization #electrification #affordability #affordable #us #startups #investors #esginvesting #esg

An Easier Path To Heat Pumps: Monthly Lease, No Up-Front Cost

The US startup Quilt is making its indoor and outdoor heat pumps more accessible to homeowners on a budget.

CleanTechnica