{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/vermont/vt-warming-up-to-heat-pumps", "Vermont warming up to heat pumps", "2016-10-30", "2016", "2016-10", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "www.sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Vermont warming up to heat pumps\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t By:\u00a0 Gareth Henderson \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tBusiness Vermont\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tSunday, October 30, 2016\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tGodnick\u2019s Grand Furniture in Rutland is now home to Green Mountain Power\u2019s largest installation of heat pumps, which have helped boost energy savings for a number of customers in recent years.\r\nGMP recently installed 20 of these hyper-efficient, ductless heat pump heads at Godnick\u2019s, where they\u2019re estimated to reduce fuel usage by 40 percent during the heating season. The heat pumps are also expected to save the business about 30 percent in electricity consumed by air conditioning in the summer.\r\nThe heat pumps transfer air from the outdoors to heat the building, and in the summer, they transfer heat out to cool the building \u2014 making them far more cost-effective than traditional heating and AC systems.\r\nBrian Godnick, owner of Godnick\u2019s Grand Furniture, said the business had a 40-year-old air conditioning system which it hadn\u2019t used in a few years, since it is highly inefficient.\r\nTo read full article, click here", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/vermont/vt-warming-up-to-heat-pumps"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9069801308214664, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}