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"Heat pumps can't compete against natural gas"
True.
"Heat pumps will make low-income energy burdens worse"
False.
"And it's all because natural gas is cheaper than electricity."
False.
Heat pumps are being overcharged.
What if we fixed this overcharge?
"Heat pumps can't compete against natural gas"
"Heat pumps will worsen low-income energy burdens"
"This is all because gas is cheap"
heat pumps are being overcharged
improve
are cheaper than
high winter burdens: 65% to 30% of householdslower bills: 45% to 82% of households
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heat pumps in ma
- "Heat pumps can't compete against natural gas"
- "Heat pumps will worsen low-income energy burdens"
- "This is all because gas is cheap"
- true: higher bills 27% of the time
- false: no worse on average
- false: heat pumps are being overcharged
How do we correct this overcharge?
Heat Pumps Rates in Massachusetts
By Juan-Pablo Velez
