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Dear reader,

Heat pumps take heat from outside and pump it into the home when
it's cold out, and they remove heat from the home when it's warm.
It's not a new technology, but with widespread adoption it has the
potential to cut down radically on home heating oil and natural gas,
significantly reducing carbon emissions.

That phrase is key: "with widespread adoption." As Joan Fitzgerald
reports in our latest issue on implementing the Biden agenda, there are
a lot of hurdles to heat pumps becoming the standard in America: local
regulations, an inadequate workforce of installers, confusing and often
insufficient rebate programs, electric grid improvement as usage rises,
and that old standby, supply chain disruptions.

One state has navigated these hurdles, Fitzgerald writes: Maine, where
one administrative agency coordinates all of the policy supports,
including making the rebate systems easy to use. The state has ensured
that ratepayers won't bear the burden of improving the grid, and
doubled the number of installation companies since 2015. It's an
example of implementation done right.

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