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Flagstaff resident: heat pumps cut home emissions and add resilience
Summary
A Flagstaff resident told a meeting that residential heat pumps run on electricity, reduce household greenhouse gas emissions as the grid decarbonizes, and provide both heating and cooling, with one speaker citing operation to "negative 22 degrees."
Genevieve, a Flagstaff resident, told a meeting that residential heat pumps are powered by electricity and reduce household greenhouse gas emissions as the electric grid gets cleaner. "Heat pumps are powered by electricity, and not fossil fuels," she said.
Why it matters: switching space- and water-heating systems from combustion fuels to electric heat pumps is a common pathway to lowering building-sector emissions when…
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