Jamie Hewlett regional energy coordinator with the Nunatsiavut government based out of Nain.
We spoke with Jamie briefly about the Heat Pump Program, and Jamie says the main goal is to reduce the amount of diesel consumption from the local plant.
The heat pump that they’ve been installing is a single zone mini split heat pump, rated at 15 thousand BTU output, these are also cold climate air source heat pumps so the technology basically is a heat transfer unit it doesn’t generate its own heat.
Hewlett mentions that they aimed of installing 50 heat pumps in electrically heated homes across the coast.
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