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Gard-Murray: Heat pump conversion will save the average family $160-$170 annually

Alexander Gard-Murray · One weird trick to decarbonize your home · Jun 29, 2022 · at 7:18

Political economist Alexander Gard-Murray explains household savings from modeled residential heat pump adoption.

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“And so for the average family getting one of these units, that's going to work out to around 160 170 bucks each year.”

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The claim, plainly

The average family switching from central AC to a heat pump under the proposed program will save around $160 to $170 annually.

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Assessment

In the May 2021 CLASP report titled '3H Hybrid Heat Homes: An Incentive Program to Electrify Space Heating and Reduce Energy Bills in American Homes' (co-authored by then-Harvard researcher Alexander Gard-Murray, Stephen Pantano, Matt Malinowski, and Nate Adams), the authors modeled the replacement of central air conditioners with reversible heat pumps. The published study explicitly projected that a typical or average participating household would save $169 per year on energy bills, directly matching Gard-Murray's stated estimate of 'around 160 170 bucks each year'.

CLASP's May 2021 report '3H Hybrid Heat Homes', co-authored by Alexander Gard-Murray, calculated average annual energy bill savings of $169 per participating household.
Subsequent academic literature (e.g., Chan et al., MDPI Energies, August 2022) confirms the study's estimate that a typical household would save USD 169 per year under the proposed program.

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