Merino Energy, a new startup led by a former Apple engineer, created a lower-cost heat pump that launched today.

Midea’s quick-install heat pump was designed for New York public housing. Now it’s available for anyone. It looks a little like a sleek window AC, but a new device from Chinese appliance giant Midea ...

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Merino Energy has simplified the heat pump dramatically in a quest to make them cheaper and easier to install.

If you live in an old-school New York City apartment building with steam heat—and no thermostat to control the temperature—your apartment may get so hot in the winter that you have to open the windows ...

Heat pump technology has been advancing quickly in the past several years, and while sales of heat pumps in the United States dipped slightly last year, they still outsold gas furnaces. With a broad ...

For 27 years, the heat in Regina Fred’s Queens apartment building came from a noisy steam radiator that she couldn't control and sometimes didn't come on at all, leaving her shivering. Sometimes, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boston is racing to decarbonize its public housing by 2030. The latest tool it's deploying to reach that goal? Window-straddling ...

It looks a little like a sleek window AC, but a new device from Chinese appliance giant Midea is actually a reversible heat pump that can both cool and heat a home—and it’s designed to heat ...