The San José, California, City Council in December approved a $100,000 incentive program for HVAC contractors to install heat pumps.
The initiative will be more impactful and cost-effective than a similar proposed program for electric leaf blowers, San José Spotlight reported.
“Residents have been clamoring for a ban on gas-powered leaf blowers for years,” the outlet stated, but it noted such an incentive would eat up $142,500 and cut only 191.8 tons of carbon dioxide compared to the heat pump incentive’s 1,616 tons…