The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to phase down the production and consumption of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), commonly used in refrigerators, air conditioners, and many other applications. The EPA ambition is to sharply reduce production and consumption of these harmful pollutants by using an allowance allocation and trading program. This...
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The Heat Pumping Technology HPT programme is happy to welcome two new Annexes that have been initiated already in January 2021. Annex 57 Flexibility by implementation of heat pumps in multi-vector energy systems and thermal networks Annex 58 High-Temperature Heat Pumps Annex 57 focuses on the implementation of heat pumps...
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The final report of Annex 49 is now published together with four extensive reports that are focusing on heat pumps in nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB). The Annex 49 was a follow-on of the work in Annex 40 on heat pump concepts for nZEB, with an extended scope from the...
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HPT TCP Annex 53 (participant Baolong Wang (Tsinghua University) partners with Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. (leading Chinese heat pump system manufacturer) to capture Grand Prize in the Global Cooling Prize contest. On April 29, Sir Richard Branson announced the Gree/Tsinghua team as co-winners (along with the Daikin group team) of...
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During the closing ceremony of the 13th IEA Heat Pump Conference, which took place onsite in in Jeju, Korea and online, the 14th IEA Heat Pump Conference was launched by Brian Fricke, the Chairman of the National Organizing Committee. The conference will have the theme “Heat Pumps – Resilient and...
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In a ceremony held digitally at the closing session of the 13th IEA Heat Pump Conference in Jeju Korea on April 29 2021, the winners of the prestigious Peter Ritter von Rittinger International Heat Pump Award, the highest international award in the air conditioning, heat pump and refrigeration field were...
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On April 26 the 13th IEA Heat Pump Conference was opened. This is a hybrid onsite-online event. There are about 100 national Korean conference attendees onsite at Ramada Plaza Hotel Jeju in Korea, and in addition, about 260 international participants who attend online. The conference was opened by Stephan Renz,...
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The first issue of the 2021 HPT Magazine focuses on the possibilities of heat pumps in multi-family buildings. In the topical articles you can read about drivers and barriers for heat pumps as well as the aspects of retrofit projects. In this issue you also get the latest updates from...
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