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Looking to get some anecdotal experiences from someone living in a cold climate using a heat pump as their main source of heat.

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[โ€“] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My perfect world would be solar and batteries and a heat pump install. Free power and heating.

Unfortunately or fortunetly depending on how you look at it, both gas and electric is relatively cheap in my neck of the woods so it would take forever to pay for itself.

[โ€“] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I went down the solar rabbit hole a year or two ago, unfortunately my house is oriented in a crappy direction and coupled with a bunch of old-growth trees there was no scenario where I would even break-even in the 20 year life expectancy of the panels. Maybe some day that will change.

Like you said though, I'm in the same boat where electric and gas are both quite cheap here.