Heating and Cooling

Heating and cooling efficiencies

• Money saving green tips and practices from Green Energy Consumers

  • Save hundreds of dollars per year on your oil bills

  • Look into cleaner heating/cooling systems

  • Consider heat pumps, a much more efficient way to heat and cool your home and that can further help reduce emissions with greener electrical energy - this is a recording of a Green Energy Consumers Heat Pump webinar from Jan. 2023

  • Consider a heat pump water heater to save money and energy

Heat pumps - an introduction

To find out more about your heat pump options

• Start with a Mass Save audit, if you haven't had one within the last year or two - in order to qualify for the state incentives, you need to have an audit and complete the recommended insulation work

• Contact a few Mass Save installers to come to your home - they will make recommendations and provide estimates

OR

• Contact Green Energy Consumers, a non-profit serving MA and RI, who has more heat pump information and has a partner (Abode Energy) who provides advice

To understand more about heat pumps

• This article from How Things Work has a lot of easy-to-understand information about heat pumps

• You can use a heat pump for your hot water too - hot water heat pumps are part of this article from the Sierra Club

• This Department of Energy article is also helpful