For over a century, societies have been reliant on fossil fuels for powering their economies, and even as we speak, many European countries’ dependency on Russian-imported fossil fuels is becoming more apparent. In the face of the emerging global energy crisis, heat pumping technologies have never before had as much positive attention from policymakers as they have now. According to the IEA’s Net-Zero by 2050-A Road Map for the Global Energy Sector, digitalization and smart controls will be critical in accelerating technology implementation and enabling efficiency gains that could reduce emissions from the buildings sector by 350 million tonnes of CO2 by 2050. The importance of knowing what and how to measure in order to achieve an optimized control system is discussed in the foreword of this issue.
The topical articles of this issue all address how to explore a new perspective for increasing heat pump system performance through (i) the development of advanced control and monitoring systems capable of achieving the best energy efficiency while reducing operating and maintenance costs, and (ii) smart integration of heat pumps into the energy systems.
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