{"id":66900,"date":"2025-10-09T03:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66900\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T03:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:02:10","slug":"boston-public-housing-upgrades-units-with-window-heat-pumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66900\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Public Housing Upgrades Units With Window Heat Pumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A heat pump that can be installed in minutes is allowing the city of Boston to quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-12-02\/a-heat-pump-with-diy-installation-can-decarbonize-public-housing?embedded-checkout=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">decarbonize a public housing complex<\/a> for the elderly and provide air conditioning as climate change-driven heat waves intensify. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Boston Housing Authority on Wednesday will announce a pilot project putting small heat pumps made by San Francisco-based startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gradientcomfort.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Gradient<\/a> in a 50-year-old, 100-apartment building. The units fit in a window and can provide heating and cooling for a space of about 500 square feet. That replaces the complex\u2019s inefficient electric-resistance heating and doesn\u2019t require the expensive and disruptive renovations that accompany the installation of a centralized heat pump system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heat pump that can be installed in minutes is allowing the city of Boston to quickly decarbonize&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13677,138,607,3071,12694,1793,21139,44246,2518,19083,123,9728,111,139,69,1046],"class_list":["post-66900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-boston","tag-business","tag-china","tag-cities","tag-decarbonization","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-equality","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-green","tag-july-sarl-caen","tag-melbourne","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}