Canada joins Annex 45
HPC announces that Annex 45 - "Hybrid heat pumps" - will be joined by Canada. The effort will be led by Roberto Sunyé, project manager at CanmetENERGY.
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Germany sees record in heat pump sales
Heat pump sales hit a record 78,000 in Germany in 2017, according to figures from the industry association Bundesverband Wärmepumpe (BWP). According to the latest BWP report, government subsidies for heat pumps and the stricter energy saving requirements saw sales rise by 17% compared to 2016 – itself a record...
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High-end ACs becoming popular in China
The upgrading of Chinese people's consumption habits could further accelerate the supply-side reform of ACs (air conditioning products). Smart and energy-efficient products will become hot spots in the market. From January to September 2017, the retail sales volume of products with the highest energy efficiency increased by 79.2 % year...
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First direct proof of ozone hole recovery, due to lower levels of CFCs
Measurements from NASA’s Aura satellite are said to show that the decline in chlorine, resulting from the ban on CFCs, has resulted in about 20 % less ozone depletion during the Antarctic winter than there was in 2005 – the first year that measurements of chlorine and ozone during the...
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World Bank Group pledges to stop investing in oil and gas exploration
One of the world’s most important financial and development institutions, the World Bank Group (WBG), is to stop financing oil and gas exploration, in a bid to help combat climate change. After 2019, the WBG – which includes the World Bank and three other institutions – will stop investing in upstream...
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Presentations from the Austrian workshop
On November 14, bmvit and AIT organized the workshop ”IEA Heat Pumping Technologies Workshop – An Austrian Perspective" in Vienna. Now you can read the presentations from the workshop. Agenda: Research, Development, Demonstration and Deployment of Heat Pumping Technology (Stephan Renz, Chairman of HPT TCP) Read the presentation here The IEA,...
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New publications from Annex 44 Performance indicators for energy efficient supermarket buildings
Two new publications – the Final report and the Executive summary – from the HPT TCP Annex 44 “Performance indicators for energy efficient supermarket buildings” are now published in the publication database and can be downloaded for free as pdf files from our website. Publication links HPT TCP Annex 44 Performance...
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Cold climate heat pumps help consumers stay comfortable and save money
Home heating is the largest energy expense for most U.S. homeowners and accounts for nearly 30 % of energy used in the nation’s residential buildings. Millions of homeowners in colder regions with cold climate of the country do not have natural gas available, leaving furnaces to be fueled with heating...
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