Air source heat pumps pull heat from one air mass and transfer it to another — heating by moving energy into the building and cooling by moving it out. (Frank Carini/ecoRI News)
PROVIDENCE — Eighteen months after it was first launched by policymakers, the first phase of Rhode Island’s first heat pump incentive program is over.
State officials launched Clean Heat Rhode Island in September 2023, using $25 million from the state’s share of federal pandemic relief funds to provide cash incentives for homeowners and businesses to install high-efficiency heat pumps to handle heating and cooling for homes and buildings…