The Inflation Reduction Act is packed with provisions to incentivize homeowners to make energy-efficiency upgrades to their home, including installing high-efficiency heating, cooling, and ...

Sep. 29—(Family Features) If you're like many homeowners who are considering ways to achieve greater energy efficiency, cut costs long term and reduce use of fossil fuels, replacing your gas furnace ...

With global warming becoming an urgent issue, heating our homes efficiently -- and sustainably -- has taken center stage. As winters become more unpredictable (and unexpectedly harsh), finding ...

Heat pumps are one of the most effective ways to shrink your home’s carbon footprint and your utility bills at a time of rising electricity and natural gas costs. The technology can heat and cool ...

Heat pumps can cost well over $10,000 – or much more if electrical and insulation upgrades are involved – but there’s financial help available. Tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act kicked in ...

If you're looking for an innovative and user-friendly way to cut energy costs, consider installing a heat pump water heater. Thanks to exciting opportunities from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

Heat pumps are emerging as an important tool for helping to thwart climate change—not just in the south, but all over the country: They’re much more energy-efficient than traditional heating and ...

These eco-friendly, highly efficient HVAC systems could save you money. But what is a heat pump, exactly? Heat pumps can help slow climate change—and state and local governments have spent the last ...