A nine-state alliance aims to make heat pumps the future of heating and cooling homes across their states.
The agreement, led by the nonprofit organization Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, calls for 90% of residential heating, cooling, and water-heating sales to be heat pumps by the year 2040, Canary Media reported . Officials from California, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Rhode Island signed the agreement.
The memorandum of understanding , which is not legally binding, also calls for heat pumps to make up 65% of such sales by 2030…