Mike De Socio is a CNET contributor who writes about energy, personal finance, electric vehicles and climate change. He's also the author of the nonfiction book, "Morally Straight: How the Fight for ...

Keeping the right temperature in your home or office is crucial. It is convenient because it helps you stay comfortable in extreme weather, be it hot or cold. However, sometimes your heating system ...

Heat pumps have become a kind of Rorschach test for the future of home comfort: to some people they are a climate solution, to others an expensive gamble. What rarely makes it into the marketing copy ...

Heat pumps have annually outsold gas furnaces for several years now, and with the recent introduction of more high-efficiency, cold-climate, air-source heat pumps, that trend is likely to continue.

As HVAC solutions have grown rapidly over the last decade, contractors often struggle to keep up with the changing technology. Modern, all-electric, clean-energy innovations like variable refrigerant ...