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HVAC in New Construction in 2024

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This article from the National Association of Home Builders shows the types of heating systems installed in newly constructed single-family homes in 2024, as well as their primary fuel sources.

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  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 18,598

    54% of new homes the primary fuel is electric, resistance or heat pumps.

    All I can is get ready for brown outs as the electrical grid isn't going to hack this.

    Seems steam and oil are not popular LOL

  • Steamhead
    Steamhead Member Posts: 17,977

    They install whatever is cheapest, since they don't have to live with the results.

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  • Jamie Hall
    Jamie Hall Member Posts: 26,402

    The only problem with studies like that — and it's a sort of minor irritation — is that they are, geographically, so coarse. It's inevitable — going finer grained would be very difficult. But it does tend to bias — inevitably, no criticism — towards suburban type areas, and overlook relatively sparsely populated areas (such as where I live!) where LP is wildly expensive, electricity is eye-watering, and so… more oil.

    As to system type the emphasis nowadays is on having air conditioning available, so it is quite natural that correspondingly heat pumps will be popular, and forced air is cheap.

    Br. Jamie, osb
    Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England
  • Kaos
    Kaos Member Posts: 734

    I'm not surprized. I have come to the same conclustion about a decade ago. In any place where you need cooling, unless you are in a place with unreliable power, cold climate heat pump makes financial sense both for install and operating cost.

    @EBEBRATT-Ed I'm in pretty cold area with muggy summers, around me grid load is the highest during the summer by a fair margin still. Wintertime morning TOU electricity prices are pretty high, so turning up the thermostat before the morning peak makes a lot of sense.

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