Electric Heating

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This upgrade could mean hundreds, even thousands, more dollars in your pocket.

If you're replacing your water heater, here's what you need to know.

Networked geothermal systems use the energy in the ground to heat and cool the buildings above. Could they push utilities off natural gas?

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The heating and cooling technology reduces the costs and emissions that contribute to climate change. But bureaucracy can stand in the way of available incentives.

Severe weather can cause a surge in energy use. In order to prevent power outages, here's what you should do.

The ordinance sets an emissions standard that natural gas can't meet and opens the way for the electric heat and appliances that play a key role in most plans to slash greenhouse gas emissions and avert the worst effects of climate change.

Heat pumps electrify your heating and cooling to be more efficient, and new technology could solve one of their lingering problems.

We did the math to see how much money a portable heater might trim from your energy bill.

About 14% of Chicago's greenhouse gas emissions come from the city's smaller residential buildings.

Given the right conditions, a mechanical windmill with an oversized brake system is a cheap, effective, and sustainable heating system.

The new fiscal year budget was approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Democratic-led legislature on Tuesday night, and contains a provision that bans gas stoves from new residential buildings.

New York state is banning natural gas stoves and furnaces in most new buildings, a policy that's part of a national movement aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

A team of engineers and materials scientists affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S., has developed a new way to depolymerize plastics using electrified spatiotemporal heating. In their paper, published in the journal Nature, the group describes the new process and its efficiency. Nature has also published a Research Briefing in the same journal issue outlining the work done by the team.

Researchers say gas heaters, stoves and other appliances pose risks to your health and the climate. They're comparatively small risks, but if you want to eliminate them, subsidies can cut the cost.

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