There might be. Any of that stuff in Australia is very much “pay a licensed professional” to do the work, so it costs a fortune and companies defend their share in the market rather than embrace new tech.
Here in the US heat pumps are unreasonably expensive too… We already have AC, it’s the same damn thing but backwards!
There was a government credit to lower the cost, but I’m guessing that mostly affected the sticker price (since it was X% of the cost up to some maximum I think) so the heat pump company can make more.
Adoption is more challenging if a building has older central AC as well, since we use different refrigerants now (much better for environment), but they run at a different pressure, so you need to replace the coils and all refrigerant lines, which is expensive.
I thought that there were heat pump mini splits? Maybe not yet in Australia
There might be. Any of that stuff in Australia is very much “pay a licensed professional” to do the work, so it costs a fortune and companies defend their share in the market rather than embrace new tech.
Here in the US heat pumps are unreasonably expensive too… We already have AC, it’s the same damn thing but backwards! There was a government credit to lower the cost, but I’m guessing that mostly affected the sticker price (since it was X% of the cost up to some maximum I think) so the heat pump company can make more. Adoption is more challenging if a building has older central AC as well, since we use different refrigerants now (much better for environment), but they run at a different pressure, so you need to replace the coils and all refrigerant lines, which is expensive.
Aren’t they unable to do hot water, and pretty loud? Though I would have thought Australia would already have them for AC