On "Heat Pump Hype to Hands-On Reality: The HVAC Skills Gap Contractors Can’t Ignore"

Training on heat pumps is the only thing standing between a contractor getting premium jobs and watching them go to the five guys in the region who actually know what they're doing. The problem isn't that heat pumps are hard to install or service—it's that most techs learned their trade on equipment that works completely differently, and retraining costs money upfront with no guarantee the work materializes fast enough to justify it. If you're not actively building a heat pump operation now, you're betting that the market will stay lukewarm long enough for you to catch up later, which is a losing bet in any state with aggressive electrification targets.