The first positive news comes from the marketplace where heat pumps continiue to outsell fossil gas furnances. In fact heat pump sales widened their lead over the past 12 months.
Electric water heaters expanded its lead over fossil-gas water heaters in 2024 surpasing sales of its gas counterparts by 3 percent according to BDC(Building Dearbonization Coalition).
States are also taking action on the legastive and regulatory fronts. In 2024, 15 US states & Washington D.C. passed a combined 35 las taking onbuilding decarbonization in one or another according to BDC's year-end tally.
In the past four years four years "private, public, state and federal commitments and partnerships have layered on top of another".
But in the next four years heat pump advocate must find ways to move ahead without a friendly federal government.
