Sir Richard Branson, UK billionaire and founder of the Virgin group, says air conditioning efficiencies are “pathetic” and accuses leading manufacturers of being an obstacle to change. In a blog on the Virgin website, Branson maintains that a “handful” of dominant companies are in the business of selling as many...
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The EU’s F-gas phase-down remained on track in 2017, according to the latest annual update published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). The EU-wide placing on the market of HFCs in 2017 stayed below the overall market limit of 170.3 million tonnes CO2-equivalents (Mt CO2-eq) by 0.4 %. The figures...
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The abstract submission for the 13th International Energy Agency Heat Pump Conference at Jeju, South Korea, in 2020 is now open! The theme for the conference will be “Heat Pumps – Mission for the Green World”. Important dates Abstract submission open : January 1, 2019 Abstract submission due : June 30,...
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The IEA Heat Pump TCP and the IEA Energy Storage TCP organize a workshop to finalize the discussion on the objectives, scope and activities of the new Annex. The outcome of this workshop will be a workplan for this new annex on the Comfort and Climate Box. If you are interested...
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Annex 47 - Heat Pumps in District Heating and Cooling systems, has been up and running since January 2015 and is now entering the final stage reporting results and conclusions. The operating agent Denmark has together with Austria, Switzerland and Sweden completed 38 extensive case studies, now published and available at...
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Domestic heating in Sweden is today to a large extent supplied by the use of heat pumps. And most likely the share of heat pumps within the heating market will continue to grow in the coming years. Such a development gives rise to the question as to how this development...
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On December 5-7 the 5th International Conference on Refrigeration Technology (ICRT) collected over 300 attendees, academia as well as industry representatives, from 11 different countries in Zhuhai in the South of China. During the first day several interesting keynote speeches were given, many of them with the increasing cooling demand...
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The huge price increases in HFC refrigerants appear to have ended, at least in the short term, with some refrigerants even dropping in price. The latest report by Öko-Recherche into F-gas pricing reveals that price increases in the second lag of this year have eased. The price of R404A, which...
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