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That understanding is mostly correct, but when you crunch the numbers, the “ + whatever heat it moves from one side to the other”-component of the equation tends to be small in practice relative to the input energy, such that you wind up very close to resistive heating. At best, you’ll get a COP around 1.5.
That means you pay a lot of overhead for marginal efficiency gains, and if you have clean electricity to run your heat pump, you already have clean electricity to run resistive heat.
yeah marginal gains are probably the actual reason