Smart Facts To Consider When Making Your Pool Heating Decision

• As a result of product improvements, the cost to heat a pool with an AquaComfort heater has changed very little during the past several years.

• AquaComfort heat pumps work, cost effectively, at lower temperatures, at night, where competitive heat pumps don’t work. As a result AquaComfort can save you an additional 30-40% in pool heating costs vs. other heat pumps, by allowing you to heat your pool during off-peak periods when electric rates are at their lowest.

• Don’t always believe the media hype. In many cases the media hype about escalating electric rates was greatly exaggerated. This is not to say that some metropolitan areas have not seen significantly higher electric rates; it simply means that the increases and their effects are not in line with the hype.

• Since 2000, while the efficiency of the average fossil fuel heater (natural gas, propane, oil) has remained constant, the AquaComfort heater has improved by 27% in efficiency.

• The efficiency of fossil fuel heaters decrease (on average by 33% within the first three years)over the course of their life expectancy while the efficiency of an AquaComfort heater is constant throughout its life,

• The life expectancy of an AquaComfort heater is nearly twice that of a fossil fuel heater.

• Since 2000, nationwide:
Natural gas prices are up 82%
Propane prices are up 79%
Electric rates are up 29%

• Although changes due to deregulation of the electric industry have not resulted in lower electric rates yet, restrictions that are due to expire in 2007 and 2008 will mean that electric rates will not only stabilize but will be lower in most, if not all, regions of the country than they are now.

• Some areas that saw significant electric rate increases in 2006, may experience rate reductions in 2007 and beyond.

• Recently, Connecticut Light & Power (CL&P), Connecticut's largest utility announced a 5.5% decrease in rates effective July 1, 2007.