Montana Technologies has, subject to the satisfaction of certain milestones, granted Carrier the exclusive right to commercialize its AirJoule technology into HVAC equipment in the Americas for a period of three years.
Heat pumps from Bosch, Daikin, Midea, and Johnson Controls are moving to the next phase of the challenge, which involves installing and monitoring prototypes in cold-climate locations throughout the U.S. and Canada.
The Building Performance Institute has updated the standard to provide more flexibility to contractors while maintaining consistent and conservative savings estimations.
The final rule from the U.S. Department of Energy, issued recently, requires newly manufactured indoor residential gas furnaces to be at least 95% efficient starting in December 2028, meaning furnaces made after then will have to be condensing models.
The Hydraulic Institute's Energy Rating program provides energy-efficiency program administrators with a way to encourage adoption of more efficient technology.
A Google search for terms like “furnace” or “heat pump” will yield information on how the system works and its efficiency, plus side-by-side comparisons and, if applicable, available financial incentives that can defray the consumer’s costs.
Budderfly will leverage Fujitsu’s Airstage variable refrigerant flow (VRF) systems as the core component for its ultra-high-performance (UHP) HVAC architecture.
The selected projects, which have not been finalized, would be the first awards coming out of DOE’s use of the Defense Production Act (DPA) to increase domestic production of five clean energy technologies, including electric heat pumps.