Fire wood / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Do you need a backup heat source with central heat pumps in a power outage?
Heating and cooling

Do heat pumps need a backup heat source?

...wood isn't your 'thing', or you live in an area where wood stoves are banned or firewood isn't easily available, then that likely isn't the best choice of backup heat. I'm also both fortunate and unfortunate when it comes to wood burning fireplaces, as the area where I live (Vancouver BC) is in the process of regulatin...