Earlier legislation requires heat pumps in new commercial buildings—now homes will also be included.
in favor of requiring it for new residential construction as well, both of which are expected to go into effect in July 2023.
These updates to the state’s commercial and residential codes encourage building electrification, which is aA heat pump can ideally replace both a heater and an air conditioner because the technology allows it to absorb heat energy and move it from one place to another. Compared to standard gas heating equipment like furnaces, air-source heat pumps are more energy-efficient because they use electricity to transfer heat from outdoors to indoors when heating and vice versa for cooling.
“In new construction, installing a heat pump can be cheaper than extending a natural gas connection, installing a furnace, and installing an air conditioner,” says Parth Vaishnav, assistant professor of sustainable systems at the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability who was involved in the study.
About 88 percent of single-family, new construction homes in Washington already use some sort of electric primary space heating in 2018, according to a
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