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Council urged to accelerate adoption of heat pumps

A city committee is urging council to partner with EPCOR to accelerate the adoption of ground-source heat pumps.

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Council urged to accelerate adoption of heat pumps

A city committee is urging council to partner with EPCOR to accelerate the adoption of ground-source heat pumps.

edmonton.taproot.news

I'm a bit confused, what exactly is Janz going to pitch? If it's a grant program to encourage heat pump retrofits, why would EPCOR need to be involved? They don't install heat pumps to my knowledge.

The only guess I have is that they want people to switch from gas heating to electric heating, and EPCOR might be interested because they would benefit from the increased power demand.

 

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Wouldn't buying up a bunch of condos make condos less affordable (for those not eligible for official affordable housing), keeping people in the rental market and making rentals less affordable? I don't know what's a reasonable cost, but it makes sense to me that you have to increase supply to have a real impact on affordability.

It would be an absolute nightmare from an operations and management perspective. Hence why it would never be considered.

 

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