$3000 of it went to my new heat pump.
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Nice. Honestly I'm always so surprised that heat pumps haven't caught on after all this time.
Yup, I'm looking to replace my furnace and AC unit, but finding a contractor to do it for a reasonable price (under $12k) in my area has been difficult.
Heat pumps are generally easy to install since they're generally one single packaged unit.
Only hard part about installing a HVAC system is filling the freon lines from the condenser to evaporator.
Most packaged units come prefilled, and if one single unit then no worries.
Even if you got everything in place and just had a HVAC contractor to solder and fill lines if you needed a split unit. You could save a ton of money.
Otherwise any DIYer could install one
One big downside to me is that the air never feels hot or cold, just slightly warmer or cooler than current room air.
Say I'm cold in my living room. Go to thermostat and click it up a degree. Hot furnace air is now swirling around my living room making it feel much warmer. One degree on the heat pump and you might not even notice it.
Over here it went straight into heat pump pricing. :(
I mean most of the money was going to red states and the governments there aren't exactly rational people so I'm sure the drug their feet trying to take the money without having to admit that progressive policies were why they would be less of a shithole and take full credit for progress being made.
Honestly, the very malicious part of me that wants to see those red states that were disproportionately beneficiaries of these progressive policies get all of this yanked from them under Trump.
Projects in red states /= handing money to state govts
"Despite more than $7.5 billion allocated to building electric vehicle chargers, for example, only a handful have been built. About 40 percent of big IRA projects hit delays, according to the Financial Times."
And the larger problem is that Biden was trying to go "look what I did!" when what he did was completely ineffectual.
Yeah, the legislation was passed, with fuck all to show for it. Even if Harris had been elected and the money actually did get turned into effective projects, it's still YEARS down the line, and with Trump coming in, it will likely either never happen, or if it does, he will take the credit for it.
It disappeared into thin air - as designed since it prevented the thick air.