Denmark
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Member Country Report, Denmark – September 10, 2024
Denmark’s Heat Pump Market: Progress and Grid Challenges
Denmark’s transition toward carbon neutrality has made heat pumps a key component of its energy strategy. However, despite significant progress, the market faces challenges, including a sharp decline in heat pump sales. In 2023, air-to-water and ground-water heat pump sales dropped by 41% and 25%, respectively, and 2024 has seen even steeper declines. Nonetheless, Denmark remains focused on phasing out gas and oil burners in favor of heat pumps (distributed) and district heating. In addition, biomass consumption in the district heating is expected to be switched to large heat pumps.
Government policies are heavily focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 70% by 2030 and achieving full carbon neutrality by 2045. Financial incentives are in place to encourage heat pump adoption, but the accelerated deployment of these technologies is placing increasing pressure on the electric grid. Denmark is now exploring solutions such as tariffs and ancillary service markets to stabilize the grid, one of the solutions being integrating large district heating heat pumps and connect them to these markets. Click here to get access to the presentation:
Member Country Report, Denmark – November 21, 2022
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Heat Pumps in Smart Grids: Market overview – Country report for Denmark (2017). Download the “Market overview – Country report for Denmark” here.
Development of Water Vapor Compressors and future market implementation (2015). Download the presentation here.
Research
Demonstration projects regarding Gas hybrid and Booster heat pumps (2015). Download the presentation here.
Industrial Heat Pumps – Heat pumps in industrial applications (2015). Download the presentation here.