HPC has received three letters of confirmation for the joining of HPT TCP Annexes, signed by the Swedish Energy Agency: The joining of RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden in HPT TCP Annex 47 – “Heat pumps in district heating and cooling systems“. The effort for RISE will be led by Marcus Lindahl. The...
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HPC has received three letters of confirmation for the joining of HPT TCP Annexes, signed by the Government of Switzerlands Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications: The joining of NTB in HPT TCP Annex 46 - "Domestic hot water heat pumps". The effort for NTB will be led by Prof....
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HPC has now received the letter of confirmation for the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium’s joining of HPT TCP Annex 49 – “Design and integration of heat pumps for nZEB”, signed by Brussels Environment and the ULB (responsible national expert). The effort for Belgium will be led by Prof. Patrick Hendrick...
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The US HVACR industry has called on the incoming Trump administration to ratify the Kigali amendment to the Montreal Protocol in order to protect US manufacturing and employment. In a letter to vice president-elect Mike Pence, the HVACR Industry Alliance, which represents eleven of the most influential US HVACR organisations,...
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Every three years the IEA Technology Collaboration Programme on Heat Pumping Technologies (HPT TCP) stages the IEA Heat Pump Conference. It is an international heat pump conference that was held for the first time in 1983. The 12th IEA Heat Pump Conference will be held from 15th to 18th May...
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On January 31, the US National Team for the HPT TCP had a meeting in conjunction with the ASHRAE Winter Conference in Las Vegas. One of the major topics that were discussed were the ambition to have an Annex on air-conditioning within the Programme. The next step in developing a proposal...
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On January 29 one of the seminars entitled ”Thermally Driven Devices Are Heating Up: Emerging International Field Studies and Standards for Residential Fuel-Fired Sorption Heat Pumps” was arranged by the team of HPT TCP Annex 43 ”Fuel-Driven Sorption Heat Pumps”. In another seminar entitled ”Yes, It Is Your Fault: How...
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At the Plenary Session of the ASHRAE Winter Conference on January 28, Gerald C. Groff received the John. F. James International Award. In addition to being a Fellow ASHRAE and Life Member, Gerald C. Groff was very active for a long time within the IEA Technology Collaboration Programme on Heat...
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