Embracing new home technologies can be daunting — particularly when it involves HVAC in a famously wintry state.
A user on Reddit's r/heatpumps did just that, cross-posting their "energy review" on a subreddit for their home state of Vermont after a particularly frigid night.
"Woke up to -16F but heat pumps were still running and keeping the house (mostly) warm," the original poster explained. "Upstairs was 68F, downstairs was 58F. The downstairs caught up after a couple hours of setting the fan to high."
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The original poster was on their "fourth winter with cold climate heat pumps" and wanted to share their positive experience being wholly reliant on the technology to warm their home.
Modern heat pumps are more than up to the task of heating houses in cold climates, but as The Radiant Store CEO Terry Moag explained, there's a persistent myth that they can't keep up with extremely low temperatures — a misperception the original poster handily disproved.
Moag acknowledged that versions from the 1970s and 1980s were less capable. But advances have made installing a heat pump one of the best ways to slash your utility bills, particularly since natural gas prices spiked significantly in 2025.
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On Reddit, users envied the original poster's all-electric HVAC and power setup.
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Lower energy bills 💰 "It's really cool that you're all electric. That's what I'm shooting for," one wrote.
Another noted that the cost savings with clean energy were almost unbelievable. "It seems like it is too good to be true honestly, so I won't believe it until I see the bill," they said.
A third lamented a lack of awareness about efficient, affordable modern heat pumps. "Beware the disinformation from those fossil fuel companies! There are numerous high-performance heat pumps available that can provide full output," they asserted.
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