WIRED: "What Would Happen if Every American Got a Heat Pump"

This modeling isn’t predicting the future, but calculating scenarios for how the adoption of heat pumps could unfold in the US. In the coming years, the heat pump industry could well generate surprises—the good kind—especially as the US invests hundreds of millions of dollars into domestic production. “What are the efficiency improvements, the surprising innovations, the leaps here that one can only get when you in fact start deploying these at scale?” asks climate economist Gernot Wagner of the Columbia Business School, who wasn’t involved in the paper.

Quoted in: "What Would Happen if Every American Got a Heat Pump" by Matt Simon, WIRED (23 February 2024).