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March 12, 2024

In NYC, heat pumps that fit in apartment windows promise big emissions cuts

  • The pumps could replace systems that rely on inefficient central boilers powered by oil or gas.
    • By ISABELLA O'MALLEY and INGRID LOBET
    Associated Press

    NEW YORK — 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 radiators ran so hot that residents had to keep their windows open in the middle of winter for relief.

    That all changed a few months ago, when she got a window-mounted heat pump as part of a pilot project by the New York City Housing Authority aimed at cutting energy costs and lowering emissions. Suddenly, all Fred has to do is touch a dial to bump her temperature up or down, and she found herself enjoying “a very good silence.”


     
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