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Despite some uncertainty in the HVAC market, driven in part by changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which phases out some federal incentives for energy-efficiency upgrades, heat pump adoption is set to continue expanding, specialists in the field say.
The effort complements prior state-led initiatives to decarbonize facilities, campuses and neighborhoods, including a community heat pump program that added a ground-source system to a pair of residential towers in Brooklyn and a feasibility study to swap out a gas-fired steam system and distributed air-cooled chillers for a lower-temperature water loop on part of Cornell University’s Agricultural Experiment Station campus.
“We are hoping we can continue to increase the growth of thermal storage and other solutions that can take strain off the grid,” NYSERDA Program Manager Sue Dougherty said in a presentation at the International District Energy Association annual conference in June.
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