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"Usenet text" wrote:

I'm not sure where to go from here. This is my first home. Do I call a
specialist for the heat pump? Do I have an audit done of the houses
electrical use? I didn't get the bills from the last owner, but peco has
told me that there is a significant difference from last year.

Yes, call a specialist. Your heat pump may need to be recharged.
Then again, here in Minnesota, it is too cold to use a heat
pump for heating. They can only do a certain level of temperature
change. You may need to install a real furnace or put in some
supplemental electrical registers. I bet the heat pump is running
too cold to be useful, so it just sits there chugging along all
day doing next to nothing.

An energy audit would be a 2nd step, not the cure. I see that
my gas company is offering a $25 energy audit, and a $100
intensive audit. I am not sure what the difference is.

-john-

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