{"id":23192,"date":"2014-03-12T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T09:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=19102d2283922b287ca23c14caffc382"},"modified":"2014-03-12T09:53:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T09:53:59","slug":"new-englanders-love-heat-pumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/new-englanders-love-heat-pumps\/","title":{"rendered":"New Englanders Love Heat Pumps"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    At NESEA&#8217;s Building Energy conference, air-source heat pumps were all the rage        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/new-englanders-love-heat-pumps\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Allison%20Bailes%20-%20heat%20pump%202.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo of the outdoor unit of an air-source heat pump\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last week I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/nesea.org\/buildingenergy\" title=\"NESEA's Building Energy conference\" target=\"_self\">NESEA&#8217;s Building Energy conference<\/a>, and I think I heard three terms more than any others: <span>heat pump<\/span><span>Heating and cooling system in which specialized refrigerant fluid in a sealed system is alternately evaporated and condensed, changing its state from liquid to vapor by altering its pressure; this phase change allows heat to be transferred into or out of the house. See air-source heat pump and ground-source heat pump.<\/span>, <span>net zero<\/span><span>Producing as much energy on an annual basis as one consumes on site, usually with renewable energy sources such as photovoltaics or small-scale wind turbines. Calculating net-zero energy can be difficult, particularly in grid-tied renewable energy systems, because of transmission losses in power lines and other considerations.<\/span>, and <span>passive house<\/span><span>A residential building construction standard requiring very low levels of air leakage, very high levels of insulation, and windows with a very low U-factor. Developed in the early 1990s by Bo Adamson and Wolfgang Feist, the standard is now promoted by the Passivhaus Institut in Darmstadt, Germany. To meet the standard, a home must have an infiltration rate no greater than 0.60 AC\/H @ 50 pascals, a maximum annual heating energy use of 15 kWh per square meter (4,755 Btu per square foot), a maximum annual cooling energy use of 15 kWh per square meter (1.39 kWh per square foot), and maximum source energy use for all purposes of 120 kWh per square meter (11.1 kWh per square foot). The standard recommends, but does not require, a maximum design heating load of 10 W per square meter and windows with a maximum U-factor of 0.14. The Passivhaus standard was developed for buildings in central and northern Europe; efforts are underway to clarify the best techniques to achieve the standard for buildings in hot climates.<\/span>. (The second most popular trio was beer, wine, and whiskey, but that may have something to do with the folks I was hanging out with.)<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s get right to the important question here: Why do these people in the cold climate of New England love heat pumps so much?<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12501,12508,4349,3423,830,12036,12509,1439,3436],"class_list":["post-23192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-air-source-heat-pump","tag-cold-climate","tag-conference","tag-heat-pump","tag-hvac","tag-minisplit","tag-nesea","tag-net-zero","tag-passivhaus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}