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Message: [QUOTE="bfs3, post: 4814208, member: 10189"] Geothermal does. Air sourced heat pumps to heat your home do not heat below 30-32 degrees without a backup heat source. Technology won’t change the fact that you need more heating BTUs than Cooling in CT or Mass. Air sourced Heat Pumps are air conditioners with a reversing valve. In GA most homes are still built new with Natural Gas. Apartment and Condo buildings in every state are good candidates for Heat Pumps but if it gets below freezing in a stand alone home then an electric heat strip is still far more costly than a gas boiler/furnace. Every house is different and every situation is different. Talk to an HVAC contractor, not a homeowner. It can cost one guy $6000 for a heat pump or it can cost $12,000 to have the same one installed (new air handler, tonnage, duct changes, electrical changes etc are all variables). [/QUOTE]