My parents living in the outskirts of Paris replaced their 40 year old gas furnace. They considered a higher-efficiency condensation gas furnace, but I convince

My parents living in the outskirts of Paris replaced their 40 year old gas furnace. They considered a higher-efficiency condensation gas furnace, but I convinced them to get a heat pump instead. The former was slightly subsidized (this is what is going away), about €1,000 or so, but more than 50% of the heat pump and installation price was covered by the government. They did have to install refrigerator-sized external elements in the back of the house, an apartment or a house with a smaller yard would have been more challenging. My parents now have a much quieter heating system that is immune to gas price shocks (they also got rid of their gas range for an induction cooktop and disconnected their gas hookup altogether). And now, of course the satisfaction of not funding Putin's war effort.