Heat pumps in Utah
Utah has cheap natural gas, fast-growing housing stock, and 1.9% of homes running a heat pump. Salt Lake City's summers now regularly clear 94°F, which is quietly changing the maths — a lot of Utah homes are buying cooling anyway, and that is the moment a heat pump makes sense.
Heat pump adoption
EIA RECS 2020 microdata ↗1.9% of Utah homes use a heat pump as their main heat
Goal: every home
Central heat pumps and ductless mini-splits combined, counted as the home's main heating equipment. A further 1% of Utah homes run a mini-split as secondary heat alongside natural gas.
Episodes
Recorded in Utah
Homeowners and contractors in UT, in their own words.
Money and next steps
What Utah pays toward one
Utah Office of Energy Development
The state energy office. Rocky Mountain Power's Wattsmart programme runs the main residential heat pump rebates, with Dominion Energy handling gas-side efficiency.
Program details →Federal Home Energy Rebates
The IRA rebate programs (HEAR and HOMES) survived the 2025 tax changes — they were grants to states, not tax credits. Each state runs its own, and they are at different stages: some open, some already out of money, some yet to launch. Check where Utah stands before you count on it.
Program details →
The federal 25C tax credit — 30% back, up to $2,000 on a heat pump — ended for systems placed in service after 31 December 2025. If you had one installed in 2025 or earlier you can still claim it; there is no successor credit. Incentives move fast, so check DSIRE for what is current in Utah. Last checked September 2026.
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The numbers
What a heat pump here has to cover
24°F
Coldest month average low
Salt Lake City · NOAA 1991–2020 normals
94°F
Warmest month average high
Salt Lake City · NOAA 1991–2020 normals
Cold-climate heat pumps are rated to hold full output well below zero. The question here is not whether one works, it is whether yours was sized and installed for the coldest night of the year rather than the average one.