Date: April 2023

Heat pump water heaters ("HPWH") are significantly more efficient than electric resistance water heaters (“ERWH”), and they’re the future!

From IRA funding and electrification initiatives to simply figuring out how to address the customer experience, we forecast a dramatic increase in HPWH deployments during the next decade. While these water heaters are more efficient than gas and traditional ERWH (2-3x according to DOE), they’re still the thermal batteries that we’ve grown to know and love. And they will still represent a material share of home energy consumption.

The Shifted Energy team and Hawai'i Energy worked together to address two questions:
1) Can we actually get HPWHs into LMI communities? and
2) Could HPWHs serve as a similar controllable load asset in every home?

Speakers:
Rich Philip, PLMA
Jennifer Ignacio, Shifted Energy
Caroline Carl, Hawai'i Energy / Leidos