Dual Fuel or Hybrid Heating Systems

As energy costs are growing consistently, the concept of “Green” higher effective systems as well as the energy savings they offer becomes more real to businesses and homeowners. One common approach these days is referred to as a “hybrid” or “dual fuel” heating system.

The dual fuel system will literally be the blended installation of both oil or gas furnaces with electric heat pumps. The easiest description of a heat pump will be that as a heat pump will be within the heating mode it’s an air conditioning unit in reverse.

Within the summertime, the heat pump system will act exactly like an AC and it will absorb the heat from the air then transfer it to the exterior via the exterior condensing unit. Within the wintertime, by reversing the refrigerant flow it absorbs the heat from the exterior within the exterior condenser, and will transfer it toward the interior air.

Here’s the good thing about a hybrid or dual fuel unit; by blending the effectiveness of heat pumps within their peak exterior working temperatures with the higher effectiveness of the oil or gas furnace for when the heating pump is less effective a hybrid or dual fuel system could offer optimal effectiveness.

Due to our electric rates here being more stable than inside additional regions inside the country and  more reasonable, what we’re all more worried about will be the growth we’ve experienced within oil and gas costs.

It makes the heating pump more attractive than usual, yet they’re just effective up to a specific point in regard to the exterior air temperatures. Depending on the EER rating or effectiveness of the unit of heating pump, the benefit will be reduced as the temperature drops under 40° F for thirteen to fourteen SEER machinery and could go as low as 30° or 20° F with higher EER machinery.

Most consumers who already possess furnaces within their houses and whose central AC needs replacing ought to think about a hybrid or dual fuel system. As your AC goes bad you ought to consider upgrading with a heating pump to work in correlation with your furnace heating unit that already exists. It provides you the benefit of a newer AC for improved cooling comfort and the heat pump that could be utilized most effectively for heating upon days the temperature will be beyond freezing.

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