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heat pump
Heating and/or cooling equipment that,during the heating season, draws heat into a building from outside and, during the cooling season, ejects heat from the building to the outside. Heat pumps are vapor-compression refrigeration systems whose indoor/outdoor coils are used reversibly as condensers or evaporators, depending on the need for heating or cooling.
- Part of Speech: noun
 - Industry/Domain: Energy
 - Category: Coal; Natural gas; Petrol
 - Company: EIA
 
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