A common criticism of heat pumps is that they do not work in cold weather.
However, the Nordic region – particularly Sweden, Finland and Norway – offers a rebuttal to this assessment, as our research at the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) shows.
These three European countries have the highest heat pump sales per 1,000 households in the continent.
Sweden, Norway and Finland also have the coldest climates in Europe. In all three countries, there are now more than 40 heat pumps per 100 households, more than in any other country in the world.
At RAP, we have analysed the driving factors that led to this Nordic success story, as part of the development of our heat pump policy toolkit, which we launched at the COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh last year.
Within the past 2 years, 3 of our neighbors have installed that, and they are all very happy with it.
It’s expensive to install, but well worth it in the long run.
We are planning on air to water too, but we don’t have floor heating yet, so which to do first, or all at once? IDK?
What I’ll probably try to do is install the AtA heat pump first. Then I’ll do the plumbing for the in floor heat and hot water on demand before doing the AtW heat pump. After that i might upgrade my floors to something with better thermal mass. I’m gonna do as much work as i can myself. I’ve only got a 600 sqft floor to heat and I’m just gonna install pipes under floors from the unfinished basement/crawlspace. The I’ll seaI the basement with professionally done spray foam.