Heat Pump Water Heaters

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The NH Electric Co-op has an incentive program for installation of new units:

http://www.nhec.com/filerepository/j...2014_final.pdf

Incentives Up
to $600 on Heat
Pump Water
Heaters
Most homeowners who have heat pumps
use them to cool and heat their homes.
But heat pumps can also be used to heat
water, and your New Hampshire Electric
Cooperative (NHEC) is offering incentives
up to $600 to install qualified systems.
How They Work
Heat pump water heaters use electricity
to move heat from one place to another
instead of generating heat directly. This
means they can be two to three ti mes
more energy efficient than conventional
electric resistance water heaters. To move
the heat, heat pumps work like a refrig-
erator in reverse. While a refrigerator
pulls heat from inside a box and dumps it
in to the surrounding room, a stand-alone
air source heat pump water heater pulls
heat from the surrounding air and dumps
it – at a higher temperature – into a tank
to heat water.
Pay a Little More Now, Save a Lot Later
While a qualified heat pump water heater
costs more upfront, it can save the aver-
age household nearly $300 per year on its
electric bills compared to a standard elec-
tric water heater. NHEC will help shorten
your payback time by offering a $500
incentive for the installation of a 50-gallon
heat pump water heater and $600 for an
80-gallon heat pump water heater. There
are certain program requirements so
please visit the program page on our web-
site: www.nhec.coop/energysolutions