If the entire supply of new central air conditioners was replaced with heat pumps starting in 2025, it would mean cumulative energy bill savings of $10.4 billion across Canada by 2035.
In the 1970s, most Swedish homes were heated with oil boilers. Today, electric-powered heat pumps dominate, and have drastically cut emissions from single-family homes. How did that happen? And are there lessons for Canada’s transition away from fossil fuel heating?