With nearly all government-related energy programs focused on carbon reduction, fossil fuels are increasingly viewed as the past, somewhat resentfully as the present and highly unlikely as the future. Electricity, on the other hand, is viewed as the increasingly favorable means of connecting large-scale renewable sources such as acres of photovoltaic panels and large wind farms with all types of loads, including heating and cooling.
Given this accelerating transition in how energy is delivered, electrically-driven heat pumps are destined to carve out an increasing percentage of the future residential and light-commercial HVAC markets. This trend is readily apparent in Europe. In Germany, for example, 2017 sales of electrically-driven heat pumps exceeded those of fossil-fuel boilers for the first time.