{"id":119255,"date":"2022-08-31T15:15:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=119255"},"modified":"2022-09-28T08:09:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T12:09:13","slug":"making-the-case-for-heat-pumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/making-the-case-for-heat-pumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeowners have several options for switching away from fossil fuels to heat and cool their homes | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By Lesley Hastie<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The extreme weather events that we are beginning to see globally are a predicted symptom of climate change and one that has to be addressed by cutting greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), in particular carbon dioxide and methane.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Here in Ontario, where most of our electricity has been generated using non-fossil fuels, electrifying home heating and cooling is part of the answer to cutting emissions. It also saves money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are now several options for households to switch away from fossil fuels. One is to take out a federal zero-interest loan under the Canada Greener Homes Loan plan, with which households can borrow to install cold air source heat pumps. These can be installed for as little as $7,500 to heat and cool a home of 1,000 square feet, and savings in the average home could be $1,000 a year in heating and cooling (<em>Ontario Clean Air Alliance<\/em>). Cold air heat pumps extract heat from outdoors even when the outside air is -30C and provide up to 3 times the energy output for one unit of input. Fossil fuels cannot even achieve one unit of output for one input.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another option is to use the ten-year low-interest loan offered by the Town of Huntsville to install a heat pump, with the loan repaid through municipal taxes which attach to the home, not the owner. Thus should the home be sold it will be the new buyer who continues making payments. The monthly cost of the loan plus electricity will be less than the monthly current fossil fuel cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(<em>Note: The Town of<\/em> <em>Huntsville is applying through FCM (Federation of Canadian Municipalities) to secure funding for a program which would offer low-interest loans and grant programs through the Town of Huntsville to install a heat pump, or other home energy retrofits, with the loan repaid through local improvement charges \u00a0which attach to the home, not the owner. Thus should the home be sold it will be the new buyer who continues making payments. The idea is that the monthly cost of the loan plus electricity savings would be less than the monthly current fossil fuel cost<\/em>).<\/strong> <em><strong>The Enbridge gas line expansion in Huntsville and Burk\u2019s Falls may involve a hook-up fee plus about $10,000 for installation of an HVAC system.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also a significant rebate of up to $5,000 for those paying outright to install eligible heat pumps, through the Canada Greener Homes Grant. (Insulation and improved windows and doors can also attract similar rebates and save on home energy costs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is important to recognize that these options are available, because not only do heat pumps mean no GHG emissions, they are also considerably less expensive for households than the Ontario Government gas pipelines being installed in Hidden Valley, Burks Falls and other Ontario communities. Any household opting for connection to these pipelines will have to pay a $10,000 hook up fee as well as paying for a HVAC system, all for obsolete technology that will lock in GHG emissions in Huntsville for many more years to come and will negatively affect the resale value of their home.<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lesley Hastie The extreme weather events that we are beginning to see globally are a predicted symptom of climate change and one that has to be addressed by cutting [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":119257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2437],"tags":[2904,2903],"class_list":["post-119255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","tag-alternative-home-heating-and-cooling","tag-heat-pumps"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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