ELECTRICITY CAN be made from the sun, the wind or the atom rather than by burning fossil fuels. Cars, buses and perhaps even lorries can be powered by batteries rather than petrol or diesel. But other ...

Germany's Fraunhofer ISE is leading a consortium of 20 companies from the heating and housing industries to optimize propane (R290) heat pump systems for existing multi-family homes. The LC R290 ...

Propane heat pumps for indoor use in single-family homes are now one step closer to commercialization. Germany’s Fraunhofer ISE has successfully developed a model of a heat pump refrigeration circuit ...

Heating and cooling your home make up the biggest chunk of your home's energy costs. But not enough people are considering a heat pump as a solution. The Energy Information Administration data shows ...

RICHMOND, VA — The Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) has released the results from its 2024 Propane Construction Research Program (PCRP). With nearly 2,000 projects completed across 23 ...

Now that the leaves have fallen and temperatures are dipping below freezing, it’s time to think about staying warm. Maybe it’s not a pleasant prospect given the higher costs of heating fuels, but with ...

Oscar Gala Grano bought an 1890 s home on Appleton Street in Concord in 2021 and changed the oil-fired boiler for a forced-air heat pump. Oscar Gala Grano, who bought an 1890â s home on Appleton ...

This story was supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Technically, Holly Hutchinson lives in Ithaca, New York, a university town in the Fingers Lakes region in the north-central part of ...