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Ice storms vs. heat pumps: Winter weather makes heat pumps work overtime
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Ice storms vs. heat pumps: Winter weather makes heat pumps work overtime
Pittsboro, NC – Heat pumps have become the poster child for efficient, all-electric home heating. But when an ice storm hits—when freezing rain coats neighborhoods in a glaze that snaps limbs and downs power lines—those same systems can become unusually vulnerable, sometimes failing in ways that surprise homeowners and stress electric grids. The risk isn’t that heat pumps “can’t handle winter.” It’s that ice storms combine the worst conditions f…
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