[Volundr]

I'm a bit confused here, are you suggesting that heat pumps don't make for good AC? With few exceptions (evaporatorive coolers) heat pumps and air conditioners are essentially the same thing, exact same process, technology efficiency, etc. The heat pump is an air conditioner that can run in reverse too.

In general when people criticize heat pumps it's comparing them to resistive or gas heat.

To answer your question, I'm based in Idaho and my heat pump is great. For the few days that it actually gets cold enough, it has a heat strip in the indoor unit to give it a boost, but most of the time it's just running the heat pump.

[fatfingerd]

I think a unit in Germany would be sized for heating requirements and probably set with a limiter in a hotel, etc. There's very little interest in oversized AC and an awareness of how harmful temperature shock is.