Ground and Air Heat Pumps
Heat Pumps becoming more and more popular with residents of
Summerside for heating and cooling their homes and businesses. They
operate exclusively on electricity, create no emissions and use less
energy than electric baseboards or boilers.
They use compressors and heat exchangers to pull in heat from the
outdoors in to a home or other building, very much like the way a fridge
transfers heat from the cold space inside the fridge to the a warmer
space in the room outside of the fridge.
Geothermal heat pumps are usually about 300% efficient – meaning for
every unit of energy used to operate it, it delivers 3 units of energy
are delivered to heat the space.
Air heat pumps are typically about 200% efficient, the space heating energy created is twice the energy used by the heat pump.
Tip! Thermostat setbacks at night or when away should be no more than
1 degree C, greater setbacks result in extreme operation of the backup
resistance heating to bring the home back up to the desired temperature.
The heat pump usually does not have the ability to bring the home back
up to temperature within an hour.
By comparison, electric baseboard and electric boilers have 100% efficiency.