Arkansas HVACR NewsMagazine January 2023

HVACR NewsMagazine January 2023

State National Chapter News

deployment of electric heat pumps is critical to achieving U.S. climate, energy savings and energy security goals. Input received will guide t he Department’s decisions to maximize the $250 million Defense Production Act investment in heat pumps, funded through President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, to reduce the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels, strengthen national defense and energy security, lower consumer energy costs, improve home efficiency, and mitigate the climate crisis. Reprinted from the following website: https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris administration-announces-250-million-investment-inflation reduction-act

Defense Production ACT Biden allocates $250,000,000 to speed up electric heat pump manufacturing WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden-Harris Administration, through U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), today announced a joint Notice of Intent (NOI) and Request for Information (RFI) to determine how DOE could best leverage the Defense Production Act authority invoked by President Biden to accelerate domestic electric heat pump manufacturing. Rapidly increasing the U.S. manufacturing output and