Tell your state leaders to accelerate the rollout of efficient, money-saving heat pumps!

Across America, states are leading the way on deploying clean, affordable, energy-efficient, money-saving, and highly effective heat pumps! Snowy Maine is at the forefront: after setting a goal in 2019 to deploy 100,000 heat pumps by 2025, the Pine Tree State met that goal two years early in 2023 and is now targeting another 175,000 new heat pumps by 2027!

A recent study found that Maine households who have installed heat pumps are seeing 60% savings on their yearly energy bills compared with fossil fuels. Maine’s new state energy-efficiency plan to accelerate this trend is forecast to support 38,000 new whole-home heat pump systems and long-term lower electricity bills across the state by over $490 million.

In Massachusetts, the decades-old steam pipes-based district heating system serving Boston and Cambridge is getting electrified, with a 42 MW electric boiler and a 35 MW industrial-scale heat pump linked to the Charles River! Furthermore, the roughly 100,000 heat pump households in Massachusetts now benefit from lower winter electricity rates starting this November, thanks to a new state policy for clean affordability!

Nationwide, companies have found that the world-historically terrible 2025 OBBBA bill, which among much else has canceled tax credits for homeowners installing heat pumps, left a window for ongoing progress. If heat pump installation companies retain ownership of geothermal-source heat pumps and lease them to the homeowner, the company gets the tax credit.

Notably, this leasing model also allows home builders to indirectly benefit from heat pump tax credits when building new housing developments, making geothermal-source heat pumps cheaper than the fossil-fueled status quo. New lease deal formats are arising to match.

Due to heat pumps’ greater efficiency, they substantially reduce fossil fuel use relative to gas boilers even if the electricity for the heat pumps comes from burning fossil fuels. In grids with renewables (most of them these days!), heat pumps reduce gas demand, and the accompanying emissions, correspondingly further.

State leadership on rebates, tax credits, and supportive regulatory structures has been critical for heat pump expansion. The interstate agency nonprofit NESCAUM recently released a new 80-page report outlining multistate strategies to speed up the heat pump revolution. There’s never been a clearer path to keep accelerating this win-win technological upgrade and save energy and money while warming America’s homes and buildings!

Tell your state leaders to accelerate the rollout of efficient, money-saving heat pumps!