Governments should subsidize heat pumps (and solar/wind) and require them in building codes, including a requirement that they can be fully used for heating and for cooling; as well as expedite phasing out other means of heating.
This is a public health and safety issue.
@thomasfuchs I agree, and Biden's IRA did do this, however in such a way that tended to benefit HVAC installation companies much more than than homeowners. So how the subsidy is done matters quite a bit. Especially where private equity has such a tendency to swoop in an capture the subsidy benefit like has happened with solar and hvac industries in the USA
Also a USA problem, modern R-290 monobloc heatpumps need to be made legal / available for residential installation
@thomasfuchs subsidies are surprisingly difficult to do right. I think more helpful would be to just buy a struggling company in the sector and ramp up production of units to flood the market.
I think the same should happen with housing.
There isn't a need to innovate so much here, just to scale up... and boy can governments do scale.
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