The US Environmental Protection Agency is looking to roll back its rules relating to HFC leak checking and is seeking comment on other rules on refrigerant recovery and refrigerant handling. The EPA’s Refrigerant Management proposed rule would cancel Obama-era regulations to control leaks and the venting of HFC refrigerants from...
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The IEA Technology Collaboration PRogram on Heat Pumping Technologies 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 Climate Box....
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California has voted to pass the California Cooling Act which will restrict the use of high GWP HFC refrigerants and other HFC compounds. Approval by the California legislature of the bill, first introduced by California senator Ricardo Lara in February, also calls for the development of an incentive programme to...
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We are happy to announce that Annex 51 - "Acoustic Signatures of Heat Pumps" - will be joined by Germany. The effort will be led by Peter Schossig, Fraunhofer.
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The new issue of the HPT Magazine is out now! The topic this time is Affordable Heating and Cooling. The development of heat pumping technologies shows us a path towards decreased dependency on fossil fuels. But development often means increased costs; costs that the market is not necessarily willing to pay....
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We are happy to welcome the UK as formal participants of IEA HPT Annex 52, and look forward to working together and learn from UK GSHP experience. Contact person for the UK team is Professor Simon Rees at Leeds University.
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On August 8-9 the 2018 China heat Pump Annual Conference & 7th International Air-source Heat Pump Development Forum took place in Hangzhou in China. The event was held by China heat pump alliance (CHPA) and attracted more than 600 participants, representing industry, academia as well as policy makers. In the...
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Google has placed the control of its data centre cooling into the hands of an AI-powered recommendation system. Instead of human-implemented recommendations, Google’s AI system is directly controlling data centre cooling, while remaining under the expert supervision of its data centre operators. This first-of-its-kind cloud-based control system is now said...
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