Nearly half of new homes now get a heat pump, but only about one in five of those uses an inverter. This report looks at 12 months of Ekotrope rating data to show what is being installed, who makes it, where it is going, and how those homes perform.
Of 379,913 new homes rated in the last 12 months, 183,883 are heated by a heat pump.
Only about one in five identified heat pumps has an inverter-driven, variable-capacity compressor.
Homes with inverter heat pumps average a HERS Index of 46.8, compared with 54.0 for non-inverter homes.
Washington heat pumps are almost all inverter. In Florida and Arizona, it is 2%.
Five brands supply 66% of inverter units. The top five models supply only 14.5%.
A state-by-state table and a Houston ZIP-code view are inside. Download the report to see them.