Heat pumps in Wyoming
Wyoming has the third-lowest heat pump adoption in the country at 1.0% of homes. The striking detail is what the few heat pumps here sit alongside: electric resistance heat. In a state with cheap power and expensive distances, plain electric baseboard has long been the default — and it is exactly what a heat pump replaces most profitably.
Heat pump adoption
EIA RECS 2020 microdata ↗1% of Wyoming 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 0.5% of Wyoming homes run a mini-split as secondary heat alongside electric resistance.
Episodes
Recorded in Wyoming
Homeowners and contractors in WY, in their own words.
Money and next steps
What Wyoming pays toward one
Wyoming Energy Authority
The state energy agency. Wyoming has no statewide residential efficiency programme, so incentives come from Rocky Mountain Power, Black Hills Energy or your rural electric co-op.
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 Wyoming 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 Wyoming. Last checked September 2026.
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The numbers
What a heat pump here has to cover
18°F
Coldest month average low
Cheyenne · NOAA 1991–2020 normals
84°F
Warmest month average high
Cheyenne · 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.