BBC News, on Climate, 13 November 2026
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Read the original article on bbc.com (opens in a new tab)BBC News reports on apps that let homeowners and installers calculate a home's heat loss before fitting a heat pump, with researchers and installers disagreeing over whether homeowners should do this themselves. The article ties poor heat pump performance to wrong sizing rather than to the technology itself, and attributes its claims to named sources. Nothing in it misleads the reader.
“Should that calculation be off, the heat pump will likely perform poorly.”
The BBC places poor performance on a wrong calculation, not on the heat pump, so the reader does not come away thinking heat pumps simply fail in cold homes.
“He and colleagues recently conducted a study, yet to be published, examining the heat loss calculations provided by tradespeople to roughly 75 US homeowners.”
The reporter tells the reader the study is unpublished and gives its sample size, so the finding about oversizing comes with its limits attached.
“Naturally, these are models available through Midsummer Energy.”
The article says plainly that the free Heatpunk tool recommends its own maker's products, so the reader knows the commercial interest behind it.
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