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Absolutely, according to researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. They modeled the entire US housing stock and found that, over the appliance’s expected lifetime of 16 years, switching to heat pumps for heating and cooling slashes emissions in every one of the contiguous 48 states.

In fact, heat pumps reduce carbon pollution even if the process of cleaning up the U.S. grid moves slower than experts expect. The NREL team used six different future scenarios for the grid, from aggressive decarbonization (95% carbon-free electricity by 2035) to sluggish (only 50% carbon-free electricity by 2035.) Their work was published last month in the journal Joule.