Unlike most other heat pumps on the market, our cold climate heat pump use an air-to-water principle. This has many advantages over conventional air-to-air heat pumps, as being a water system our units can provide superior energy storage through a buffer tank. By storing the heat energy, we can distribute it to any source we want, such as a domestic hot water, heating and cooling fans, finned radiators, hydronic in floor heating, air handlers, pools, and hot tubs. This means that one heat pump system can provide all the heating and cooling your home requires at a savings of 50%-75% compared to traditional electric heating systems.

Since our Arctic Heat Pumps will cover your heating needs down to -25 C, depending on where you are living there could be a few days of the year colder than this operating temperature. This is why we provide a back up 4.5 Kw heating element inside our buffer tanks. If the water drops below the low temperature set point, the heating element will automatically turn on and deliver the added energy needed. However, average winter temperatures below -25 C in North America are only seen in the most northern communities, meaning almost everyone has the ability to use our heat pump with very little backup power ever needed.

Solar Thermal Assist and Cold Weather Heat Pumps.

Our Arctic Heat Pump is designed for the ability to be connected to a solar a solar thermal booster. By adding our high efficiency solar vacuum tube system to your heat pump you have the ability to further improve the performance of your heat pump. The buffer tanks we provide contain an optional bottom heat exchanger which can connect directly to the solar thermal collectors. These collectors use evacuated solar tubes which can provide heat energy even in -40 C degree weather. This inexpensive combination of our renewable energy systems has the capability of providing homeowners up to 3 MWH of free heat energy annually on top of the energy savings of our Arctic Heat Pump.