""When it came to heat pumps, I was shocked when I got a quote for $40,000 to install heat pumps in my own house," Rau says."
""I learned that that was really the true bottleneck when it comes to heat pump adoption," she says."
"Merino's design eliminates outdoor units and the need for complicated connections. Instead, it uses two vents in the wall, one to pull air in and one for exhaust."
"For a whole home, the system could be half the cost of a typical mini split installation."
Mary Ann Rau founded Merino Energy to make heat pumps more accessible after facing high installation costs. The startup offers heat pumps that can be installed in under an hour for a fixed price of $3,800, significantly lower than traditional systems. Rau's experience at Quilt highlighted installation complexity as a major barrier to heat pump adoption. Merino's design eliminates outdoor units and complicated connections, using two wall vents for air intake and exhaust, streamlining the installation process.
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