The first heat pumps to pass the U.S. Department of Energy's Cold Climate Heat Pump Challenge might be in customers' homes by the end of the year.

Gradient's advanced window unit can heat and cool 500 square feet of your home, and it doesn't require any electrical work.

A German company has debuted a new photovoltaic roofing tile that could help change how homes around the world are powered.

Developed at the U. S. Ames National Laboratory, the novel magnetocaloric heat pump utilizes gadolinium as the working medium and reportedly matches current vapor-compression heat pumps for weight, ...

Whether a heat pump makes sense for your home depends on several factors: the condition of your home, how old your existing HVAC system is and how it is powered ... (when it is heating your ...