Posted on 12/19/2022 6:56:40 PM PST by lowbridge
A state commission today approved plans to phase out fossil fuel-burning furnaces beginning as soon as 2025 as part of New York’s aggressive program to address climate change.
The plan adopted today by the state Climate Action Council requires energy-efficient electric heat pumps or other non-combustion heating systems in every new home built in 2025 or thereafter.
For existing homes, residents whose fossil fuel-burning heating units give out after 2030 will have to replace them with a zero-emission system.
Those are just two of the many policies in a 445-page plan adopted today by the state Climate Action Council, a 22-member commission made up of state agency leaders, environmental experts, energy industry leaders and others.
Some of the policies approved today in the Climate Action Council’s “final scoping plan’' require further action before they can be enforced. The new regulations on heating systems, for example, will require changes to the state building code. Other changes may require new legislation.
But the council’s “final scoping plan” is now the official policy for how state government will meet goals for greenhouse gas reduction required under a state law passed in 2019. State regulations must follow its prescriptions, said Robert Howarth, a Cornell University professor and a member of the Climate Action Council.
“Agencies are supposed to go ahead and start following the plan -- making regulations, doing whatever it is that needs to be done -- as of next month,’’ said Howarth, a professor of ecology and environmental biology.
Get ready to learn about electric heat pumps.
In Central New York, officials are planning for a massive housing boom to accommodate thousands of workers expected to build and staff new chip fabs for Micron Technology. The transition to new household heating technology could be especially significant.
(Excerpt) Read more at syracuse.com ...
Utopian ideas must come from people who eat spicy chili before bed time.
NY is already the lowest energy user state?
Thanks for taking the time to post that. A picture is worth a thousand words …
A bunch of homes just went up for sale in my neck of the woods today.
Coinkydink...?
You’ll want to pull out your heavy jackets, gloves, caps and snow shovels. A lot of Global warming coming your way. Stay warm.
Looks like NYS is going to ban nat gas ranges, too...
Get a load of the last paragraph...
“...Some advocates hope that as technology becomes better and more easily produced that the cost will come down.”
Looks like the rest don’t give a ****.
I thought about this article over the Christmas weekend when so many people were suffering power outages. Can you imagine how many more people would have died if natural gas or heating oil had already been banned? These people are not stupid nor misguided. They realize their push for a ban on petroleum products, and a switch to all electric, will cause numerous deaths. And, they will gladly use those same products while banning the use by others. They don’t care. They are evil.
You’re right.
Thanks!
This is the Paloma Pack/on demand/ of whole house heating and hot water heating. What I see from skimming their website....
https://energykinetics.com/system2000-quietest-most-efficient-boiler/
Check this out. Guy wants the local board to rubber stamp anything coming out of Albany in terms of property code regs. No need to waste time voting! So efficient! What’s not to love, right?
https://cortlandvoice.com/2022/12/22/proposed-cortlandville-law-could-update-property-codes/
Interesting timing, though.
Are local governments all over NYS, the ones that haven’t already done it, planning to do this so they don’t have to vote on whether or not to comply with the nat gas ban on furnaces and ranges?
We know a few people who have installed heat pumps.
Most have already ripped them out.
The folks we know who still have them replace them 2x to 3x more often than we do our furnaces.
How to clean damp walls to make mould and musty odours 'disappear' - using just two items
Then I ran across this gem from 2018. Was looking for info on why so many UK homes have mould (sic) issues. Look what I found...
'I had no idea,' heat pump owner says about potential for mould
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