With winter in full swing, your eye-watering energy bills might have you looking at alternative forms of heating. Heat pumps promise lower emissions, and potentially lower costs. With many European ...

Merino Energy, a new startup led by a former Apple engineer, created a lower-cost heat pump that launched today. Five years ago, while working at Apple as an engineer, Mary Ann Rau decided to ...

For several years, heat pumps have outsold gas furnaces in the United States. Instead of burning fossil fuels to generate warmth, these appliances use electricity — ideally provided by renewable ...

MINNEAPOLIS-- When Emily McPherson bought her Minneapolis home, it didn't have air conditioning. Installing the necessary infrastructure for typical A.C. installation was expensive, so her family ...

NEW YORK -- For 27 years, the heat in Regina Fred's Queens apartment building came from a noisy steam radiator that she couldn't control and sometimes didn't come on at all, leaving her shivering.

Climate tech startup Gradient tells Fast Company exclusively how it retrofitted a Providence apartment building to slash ...

On Earth Day, the mayor will lay out a commitment to adding energy efficient heating systems, modern induction stoves, and ...

If you're in need of a new air conditioner or furnace, it might be worth considering a heat pump. They can both heat and cool ...

New England has some of the highest electricity prices in the country. But this past winter, 140,000 households in ...

Now, attention is turning toward industries that burn fossil fuels in boilers to process food, textiles, and a bevy of other goods. In addition to producing almost a quarter of the nation’s directly ...