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Heat Pump Lease & Purchase
Whether you’re exploring heating, cooling, or hot water options, our team can help identify solutions that fit your home, budget, and energy goals.
Heat Pumps
Explore heat pump solutions from Clover Energy by VGS, including heating, cooling, hot water, rebates, financing, leasing options, and ongoing service and support.
Explore heating, cooling, and hot water solutions from Clover Energy.
Clover Energy by VGS helps Vermont homeowners explore heat pump solutions designed for their homes, budgets, and energy goals. Whether you’re upgrading one space or planning improvements throughout your home, our team is here to help you understand your options and navigate the process from start to finish.
Why Choose Clover Energy
Heat pumps are an efficient electric option for heating, cooling, and hot water. Our team helps homeowners understand their options, identify the right solution for their home, and navigate available rebates, financing, leasing, and service opportunities.
When you work with Clover Energy, you receive:
- Local support from a trusted team
- Help identifying the right system for your home
- Assistance navigating available incentives
- Flexible purchase, lease, and financing options
- Ongoing service and support
Our goal is to help you understand your options, identify the right solution for your home, and feel supported throughout the process.
Heat Pump Options for Vermont Homes
We support heat pump installations designed to meet your home’s heating and cooling needs, including systems that integrate with existing furnaces.
Ductless Mini-Split Heat Pumps
A mini-split heat pump is a heating and cooling system that serves one room or a specific area of a home. It includes an outdoor fan connected to one or more indoor units mounted on a wall. Because mini-split systems do not use ductwork, they work well in homes without ducts, with additions, or spaces that are hard to heat or cool evenly. Each indoor unit can be controlled on its own, allowing homeowners to adjust temperatures room by room and focus comfort where it’s needed most.
Use our Home Heating Cost Comparison Tool to explore estimated heating costs and compare available options.
Centrally Ducted Heat Pumps
A ducted heat pump system is integrated into a home’s existing ductwork to heat and cool the entire house. Warm or cool air is distributed through these ducts, just like a traditional furnace or central air system, and is typically controlled by a single thermostat. Ducted heat pumps are installed as part of a hybrid system, where the heat pump provides efficient heating for much of the year, and a backup heat source supports comfort during colder conditions. This option works well for homes with ductwork that is in good condition, and our team evaluates each home to ensure a ducted system is the right fit. Clover Energy currently offers centrally ducted heat pump systems for customers with a natural gas furnace.
Curious how a hybrid heating system could impact your home’s energy costs and emissions? Use our Carbon & Cost Estimator to compare scenarios and explore your options.
Heat Pump Water Heaters
A heat pump water heater is an efficient appliance that heats the water in your home by using electricity to pull heat from the surrounding air and move it into the tank. This process uses significantly less energy than traditional electric water heaters and can help lower operating costs over time. As an added benefit, heat pump water heaters can help dehumidify the space they’re installed in, which is particularly useful in spaces like basements. They’re a great option for homeowners looking to improve hot water efficiency while maintaining reliable, everyday performance.
Wondering how a heat pump water heater compares to other water heating options? Use our Water Heating Cost Comparison Tool to estimate costs and explore the potential benefits for your home.
Additional Resources
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Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions about heat pumps, rebates, financing, leasing, maintenance, or cold-climate performance? Explore answers to some of the questions we hear most often.
Heat pumps draw warmth from the air, then amplify and transfer the heat to where it’s needed. Cold climate heat pumps are an energy efficient way to cool your home. They can be twice as efficient as cooling with window AC units, and they dehumidify better than all AC alternatives (this results in less electric energy usage).
Centrally ducted heat pumps utilize your pre-existing furnace and ductwork. This allows the system to heat and cool your home where ductwork is present, which often covers the entire home. Ductless mini-split heat pumps are wall mounted units that are generally easier to install. Depending on layout, a single unit may only be suited for heating and cooling an individual space within your home. Multiple ductless mini-split units may be required to heat and cool the entirety of your home.
Heat pumps will save carbon compared to combustion systems. When heating, the amount of carbon savings depends on how much you utilize heat pumps in place of oil, propane, or natural gas you would otherwise use. This is true of centrally ducted systems and ductless mini-splits that are integrated with an existing backup system, such as a furnace. In both examples, you can optimize the system to prioritize carbon savings. For instance, heat pumps that are configured to switch over to a backup heating source at higher outdoor temperatures can often provide substantial carbon savings without significantly increasing home heating costs. Configuring the system to rely on the heat pump at lower temperatures may further increase carbon savings. The actual amount of carbon savings will vary based on your home’s size and how well insulated it is. Our teams will help you understand how your choices can impact your cost and carbon goals.
Heat pumps are made to operate efficiently at temperatures as low as negative 15 degrees. The heat pumps VGS installs have been vetted and selected based on their ability to perform in different conditions throughout the year. As with all heating and cooling systems, heat pumps perform better in well insulated and air sealed homes. In the case of a centrally ducted heat pump, your hot air furnace is available as a backup, providing the option to heat your home using natural gas on the coldest days.
Yes. VGS deducts state rebates from the upfront cost. These rebates are incorporated into both the upfront sales cost (should you purchase) and the monthly lease cost.
All heating and cooling systems benefit from regular maintenance. Heat pumps generally need the following maintenance:
- Check your air filters regularly and clean them as needed;
- Keep the outdoor unit clear of snow, ice, dirt, and debris;
- Keep the outdoor coils clean (turn the unit off and use a degreasing product);
- Don’t let plants grow within 18 inches of the heat pump (this helps ensure there is adequate air flow around the unit); and
- Flush the indoor condensate pan before starting up the AC for the season.
Please contact VGS if you have questions about maintenance for a system we have installed.
Service plans are included in the price when you lease a centrally ducted heat pump from VGS. For customers that decide to purchase a heat pump from VGS, you can learn more about service plans here.
VGS leases heat pumps via a monthly charge on the bill for 10-years. After the10-years (120 rental charges) has ended, customers will be charged the remainder balance on their VGS bill, as indicated in the lease agreement.