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A new type of furnace is warming homes and winning the hearts of conservation minded homeowners. It’s the first commercially available residential cogeneration plant in the US.

A new type of furnace is providing homeowners not only heat but electricity. As the Climate Energy Freewatt furnance warms homes it wins hearts because it can actually run your electric meter backwards. Reporter Prachi Patel-Predd reports on the unique cogeneration plant for houses.