Canary Media, one of the country’s top clean-tech publications, took a deep dive into how heat pumps reduce climate emissions and whether the federal government will continue to support heat pump tax incentives next year. AnnDyl’s Skip Witlshire-Gordon shared his take on the situation for the article.
“That’s not to say that the primary Inflation Reduction Act programs boosting heat pump adoption are certain to be undone. But they do face a murky future under the Republican-controlled government, according to Skip Wiltshire-Gordon, senior manager of government affairs for policy strategy firm AnnDyl Policy Group ….”
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But Republicans in Congress want to extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts next year and ‘are going to be looking to find funding offsets pretty much anywhere they can,’ Wiltshire- Gordon said during last week’s webinar. ‘The inflation Reduction Act is one place they’ll look.’”
This story was originally published by Canary Media on December 18, 2024.
Heat pumps are the single biggest tool for U.S. households to cut carbon emissions and curb unhealthy air pollution. They’re also far more efficient than the fossil-fueled or electric resistance heating appliances found in most homes, meaning most households can save on utility bills by purchasing one.
But making it as cheap and simple as possible for households to replace their fossil-fueled boilers, furnaces, and water heaters with electric heat pumps involves a lot of hard work — and not a little bit of extra money. Heat pumps, which are reversible air conditioners, can come with significant up-front costs.
