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submitted 7 months ago by spacecowboy to c/[email protected]

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Looking to get some anecdotal experiences from someone living in a cold climate using a heat pump as their main source of heat.

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[–] noneabove1182 6 points 7 months ago

I live in Ontario where we go down to -30C in the harshest conditions.

We have a heat pump and a furnace and they alternate based on efficiency

Somewhere around -5 to +5 C it switches from the heat pump to the furnace

I think you could get by a bit colder but it really loses out on efficiency vs burning gas unless you invest in a geothermal heat pump