Let us now explore the working pattern of hybrid heating pumps. In a hybrid heat pump as a furnace is used along with an electric pump, it heats your home more efficiently. In fact, heat pumps are great ways to heat your homes during cold to chilly weather. Even when the temperature is cold, there is some heat in the air which the heat pump extracts and pumps into your homes. When the temperature outside falls below an economic balance point and it becomes difficult to heat with gas, oil or propane, the heat pump switches to your furnace. Without a fossil fuel heating source the heat pump uses electric resistance heat to heat your homes.
As far as the hybrid heat pumps are concerned they use the best of both the worlds. Throughout the year, you are able to enjoy a comfortable and consistent interior temperature. However, the amount of saving that you will make with the use of hybrid heat pumps depends solely on factors like the current cost of energy, your heating needs, and the location of your home. To put it simply, basically the hybrid systems uses a heat pump as the primary heat source and then moves to the furnace when the energy drain on the heat pump hits a certain point. This means hybrid heat pumps uses very less energy during most of the seasons in a year but switches to the furnace when the temperature dips too much.