The Latest HVAC Technologies
Looking to learn about the latest and greatest HVAC technologies? With companies around the world looking harder and harder for new, more efficient, greener ways to keep homes and businesses at comfortable temperatures, there's quite a lot to read about in recent years. Here are three of the more promising technologies to rise up in recent yearsโtechnologies everyone should consider for their own St. Michael HVAC needs.
1) Thermally-driven Air Conditioning
An exciting blend of ingenuity and practicality, thermally-driven air conditioning utilizes solar energy supplemented, when necessary, with natural gas for power. This alone would be fairly efficient compared to pure electric systems, but these units go a step further, utilizing its own solar panels, custom designed to reach a high temperature, to produce the heat necessary to drive a double-effect chiller. This results in an extremely efficient cooling system, colder than equivalent photovoltaic systems and utilizing far less electricity.
2) Energy Analysis Software
In the past, fitting the ideal system to a given space has been a matter demanding no small degree of careful engineering—engineering most HVAC companies simply couldn't hope to offer, as a practical matter. New energy analysis software solutions on the horizon promise to make these limitations a thing of the past, however, giving highly accurate forecasts of energy and cost-efficiency for a given HVAC system as it applies to a given space. This means you might be able to see, without a doubt, whether the lifetime of a system, energy efficiency, and price would result in savings, lost money, etc., before you spent the money.
3) Dual Fuel Heat Pump
No part of the dual fuel heat pump is a particularly new technology, but these are a rising star combination of efficient heating and effective heating, cleanly overcoming the inherent flaws and limitations of gas furnaces and electric heat pumps to produce a consistently comfortable, consistently cheaper heating. These systems rapidly recoup their higher up-front expense; within a few years, St. Michael homes and businesses installing these units will be profiting from the investment.
These are far from being the only new technologies to land on the HVAC stage in recent years. And some technologies have returned from obscurity as technology catches up with the concept, such as geothermal heat pumps. The choices are limitless—the only question is what works for your particular climate, budget, and priorities.
Call B & D Plumbing, Heating & A/C at (763) 497-2290 to discover all the HVAC technologies we provide to cool or warm your St. Michael, MN home.