Emissions

Decrease Pollution at Home

Switching from natural gas to Ashland’s clean hydro-powered electricity is a huge way to quickly reduce our emissions and positively impact the climate. Especially moving from gas furnaces to heat pumps.

The biggest carbon emissions come from gas furnaces (4-8 tons), gas automobiles (4-8 tons), and gas water heaters (1-3 tons). The cleanest source is Ashland’s hydro-powered electricity (0.2-0.4 tons).

Old gas furnaces have the highest carbon emissions, while heat pumps have the lowest emissions and are the most energy efficient.

Heat pumps offer more warmth for the money.

Electric water heat pumps cost the least.

The heat pump has the lowest carbon emissions — 0.03 tons whereas the gas furnace has the highest.

Electric cars produce a tiny fraction of the emissions of a gas car, over the life cycle of the car.

Did You Know?

A gas furnace produces more pollution than almost anything else we use —  an estimated 4-8 tons of carbon emissions per year. That’s equivalent to a year of driving a gas-burning car!