Canadian weather is all over the map: frost one day, heatwave the next. Why shouldn’t your home be ready for both?

Hyman says most people with a cold-climate heat pump set their system to switch to the furnace at -5 C or -10 C. "If it's sized a little bit more aggressively, you might be able to go down to even ...

Homeowners who switch their old heating systems for an energy-efficient electric heat pump and gas furnace combo can get at least $10,000 in rebates from FortisBC.

Back in the UK, the independent research body Energy Systems Catapult has published data on a sample of heat pump installations, with the best ones achieving a 365-day SCOP of around 4.4.