The state’s innovative winter heat-pump rates go into effect this weekend and should make the tech more accessible. Deeper discounts could come next year.
Massachusetts heat-pump owners will spend less to stay warm this winter, thanks to an innovative policy going into effect this weekend.
The state’s three investor-owned electric utilities — Eversource, National Grid, and Unitil — are all offering lower winter rates to the roughly 100,000 households with electric heat pumps, starting on Nov. 1 and running through April.
“It really is what matters to people — it reduces the cost of running a heat pump,” said Larry Chretien, executive director of the Green Energy Consumers Alliance, who is replacing his own gas-fueled heating system with heat pumps this week…