How to Use space heating in a Sentence

space heating

noun
  • Our water heater was the last big energy consumer in our house after cutting space heating.
    oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Gas is also a fuel used much more for space heating, and space heating is a totally different thing than driving a car.
    Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Forty percent of homes rely on electric heat pumps or electric resistance heaters as the primary source for space heating.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Don't use grills, other outdoor appliances or equipment indoors for space heating or cooking.
    Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Menlo Park requires electric power for space heating, water heating and dryers in new homes but allows gas stoves.
    Mallory Moench, SFChronicle.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The report cites research, not from gas fields in Texas, but from the replacement of coal with gas for cooking and space heating in Turkey.
    Carroll Muffett and Kert Davies, CNN, 3 May 2021
  • The latter two sectors use the fuel primarily for space heating and other appliances.
    Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Don’t use grills or other outdoor appliances or equipment indoors for space heating or cooking, as these devices may omit carbon monoxide.
    Jennie Key, The Enquirer, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Roughly 90 percent of the cooking and space heating in the state of California is done with natural gas.
    Rob Nikolewski, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • As temperatures drop, people will often increase their use of hot water for long showers and to prevent freezing of pipes and space heating in order to keep warm.
    Kendrick Marshall, Sacbee.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The heat could be used for space heating or hot water in buildings, Haussener says, or for fueling industrial processes.
    IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2023
  • But the bill no longer includes the proposal to establish statewide building standards that would have required new structures to include water and space heating systems that do not use fossil fuels.
    Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Residential, commercial and space heating (RCH) demand is fast catching up.
    Wood MacKenzie, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Heat-pump space heating is entirely viable in central California, where the temperature doesn’t drop below freezing that often.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Washington was the first to use its building code to mandate all-electric space heating and cooling in new buildings - a step that effectively requires developers to install electric heat pumps.
    Anna Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • In Japan, heat pumps constitute a third of the space heating sector, and the government promotes consumer education and higher product quality.
    John Fialka, Scientific American, 18 Dec. 2019
  • More than two dozen California cities have approved policies over the last year banning or discouraging the use of natural gas for space heating, water heating and cooking in new buildings.
    Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2020
  • As homeowners and landlords increasingly switch to electric alternatives for space heating and heating water, keeping the gas line to a building just to supply a stove will become too expensive to justify.
    Jonathan Mingle, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Certain exceptions allow electric resistance to be used in specific situations as approved by a code official, and some exceptions also would be allowed for space heating using a fossil fuel.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Yet in other areas, such as lower-temperature industrial processes and space heating for buildings, electrification is more practical.
    Inês Azevedo, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Tour attendees will be able to see working examples of energy-efficient heat pumps for space heating and cooling, heat pump water heaters, induction cooktops, rooftop solar systems, home battery storage and electric vehicles.
    Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The electrification portion of the ordinance requires all new residential and commercial construction to use electricity as the source of power for space heating, water heating (including spas and pools) and clothes dryers.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced plans yesterday to update the city’s building code to bar the use of fossil fuels for space heating and most water heating in new commercial and large multi-family buildings.
    Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Per Times staffer Blanca Begert, burning gas and propane for cooking, as well as water and space heating, in California homes and businesses creates 10% of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The tussle is especially fierce across northern China, where the nation’s biggest wind farms butt heads with combined heat-and-power (CHP) plants, which deliver roughly two-fifths of the region’s space heating.
    IEEE Spectrum, 20 Sep. 2016
  • Major energy-consumption categories as transportation, space heating and heavy industrial processes are primarily supplied with fossil-fuel energy.
    Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
  • To remove carbon emissions from space heating and cooling by midcentury, the study suggests an economywide carbon price, more government support for innovation and government energy efficiency incentives.
    John Fialka, Scientific American, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Aliso Canyon is just one part of an extensive network of pipelines, compressor stations and storage fields that are used by utilities such as SoCalGas to sell natural gas for space heating, water heating, cooking and electricity generation.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021

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