The IRA was passed in August 2022, with specific rules about how states should award residential heat pump rebates.
Minnesota Dept. of Commerce was still asking for RFPs for somebody to "run the program" for it 17 months later.
Now there are "listening sessions" through fall 2024 (so I guess targeting 2025 construction sseason?)
We took a home loan out in 2023; selected a contractor; picked a heat-pump and HVAC design; even signed a contract and a deposit to the supplier. We are just waiting for !@#$ program to launch. You've had all the info for almost 2 years now.
Even if you don't give a damn about the climate, you're going to miss an election cycle before awarding a single dollar. That is squandered political capital at best, and could even risk the entire program, at worst.
Heat is here.
Been searching for the maximum operating temperature of a #heatpump and finding that so far, people have been fixated on the minimum operating temperature. But in a climate-changed world you have to worry about the maximum temperature also.
(For a Mitsubishi "hyper heat" compressor, it's -15F to +115F).
In the near future a mass of people are going to die in a city from the heat, and the headlines will say that "it wouldn't have been so bad except the power went out"
Heat is going to take down power systems. The power systems that could protect us from an event, will be harmed by the event.
618 people in Canada, in the mountains, in the forest, died of a #climate heat event, on the floors of their homes, on their beds. No flames. Just a days heat.
The power stayed on, it would have been worse