Research & Innovation
Heat pumps are at the forefront of geothermal energy's expanding role in addressing global heating and cooling demands, according to the International Energy Agency's (IEA) special report, The Future of Geothermal Energy. This report highlights the transformative impact of heat pump technologies in leveraging geothermal energy for residential, commercial, and...
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Research & Innovation
Welcome to Issue 3 of Heat Pumping Technologies Magazine! In this third edition, we dive into a transformative and highly relevant theme: "Heat Pumps Revolutionizing Retrofits: Scaling Up Deployment with Innovative Solutions and Overcoming Barriers." This issue focuses on the pivotal role heat pumps play in retrofitting existing buildings, accelerating...
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Research & Innovation
Advancing Heat Pumping Technologies: A Key to Europe's Energy Transition The latest Clean Energy Technology Observatory (CETO) report, published by the European Commission, highlights the transformative role of heat pumps in driving Europe's clean energy transition. With over 21.5 million units installed across the European Union (EU) as of 2023,...
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HPT TCP Updates
Market & Policy
At the beginning of November, about 35 representatives from 16 countries, including South Korea, Japan, Canada, the United States, and, and 12 European states traveled to Madrid for the bi-annual Executive Committee Meeting of the Technology Collaboration Programme on Heat Pumping Technologies. Twice per year, representatives from the 20 member...
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Research & Innovation
As an opening act to the HPT TCP’s fall Executive Committee Meeteing, researchers and experts from around twenty universities, companies, and technological centers from across Spain showcased the latest developments and achievements in national and international collaboration projects with the purpose of advancing heat pump technologies worldwide - see list...
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The Swiss team is happy to share that they have officially joined this international collaboration project. The main objective of the Swiss project is to pool the experience gained in retrofitting heat production in existing residential multi-family buildings, mainly with monovalent and bivalent air-to-water heat pumps. The aim is to...
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This latest issue of IEA’s flagship publication Energy Technology Perspectives, offers a cutting-edge analysis of the connections between energy, trade, manufacturing, and climate. The manufacturing capacity, supply chains trade flows, markets, and the future development for the six most important clean energy technologies have been studied – solar PV, wind...
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We are happy to announce that Italy has formally joined IEA HPT Annex 63 in October 2024. We welcome our new participating country and look forward to working together and learning from Italy on heat pump projects related to Placement Impact on Heat Pump Acoustics.
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