Cold-climate heat pumps

What are cold-climate heat pumps?

Heat pumps are an efficient and clean way to move heat into your home—but what happens if you live in a colder climate?

This is where cold-climate heat pumps (CCHP) come in, which use an inverter—or variable speed drive—compressor design to meet the heating needs of a space and to reach high levels of efficiency even during the colder winter season.

Benefits of cold-climate heat pumps

Like all heat pumps, the benefits of CCHPs are:

• Safe and Clean—Heat pumps don't burn fuel. They capture free heat so are among the cleanest and safest heating and cooling systems available today.
• Economical—Cold-climate heat pumps deliver more than four times as much heat per energy used when the temperature is above 47ºF—and deliver more than two times the heating energy at 0 ºF or lower per unit of energy used—helping lower your annual heating and cooling costs.
• Efficient — CCHP provide up to 90% of space heating needs with an overall seasonal efficiency of 250%.

How do they work?

Heat pumps move heat, rather than create heat, which means they take less energy and provide higher efficiency. And cold-climate heat pumps are designed with a unique inverter—or variable speed drive—compressor that slows down to maintain temperatures, avoiding shorter cycles when the system is running at full capacity and then shuts off. Operating longer cycle uses less energy and helps achieve higher levels of efficiency.