The residential heating sector creates ever-increasing quantities of greenhouse gases as new homes are built. Electric heat pumps, an alternative heating system, can reduce residential heating emissions. However, policymakers lack a system to collect and analyze data about where they are being installed. This project, sponsored by Atlas Public Policy, resulted in the creation of an automatic data collection and visualization tool that streamlines identification of correlations between heat pump adopters in different areas. This tool assists policymakers in understanding how to focus new legislation to increase the adoption of heat pumps in newly developed homes, thereby decreasing the residential heating sector’s toll on the environment—even as more homes are built.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Medina, Carlos
• Barker, Warwick
• Higuera, Aiden
• Hong, Yitao

Subject

• Energy
• Environment
• Sustainability
• Computing

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121423-133910
• 115172

Keyword

• Data Collection
• Residential Housing
• Heat Pump
• GIS

Advisor

• Hall-Phillips, Adrienne
• Mathews, Lauren M.

Year

• 2023

Center

• Washington, DC Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Atlas Public Policy

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 13 - Climate Action

Date created

• 2023-12-14

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-121423-133910

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2024-02-07