The Heat Pump Award is a European Heat Pump Association (EHPA) project which recognizes the most efficient, smart, and sustainable Heat Pump project at the local level. Apply for the Heat Pump Award 2021 – Application Deadline is August 13th. The Heat Pump Award was launched in 2011 to highlight cities and...
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Despite COVID-19 disruption, the geothermal decade has definitively kicked off. The European Geothermal Energy Council (EGEC) has released the European Geothermal Market Report 2020 The European geothermal heat pump market continued along the recent stable trends in 2020, despite significant decreases in sales in some national markets (such as Poland) because of...
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In a new report from the European Celsius Initiative the integration of large-scale heat pumps in future district heating systems is examined. The combination of district heating and heat pumps are foreseen to have a key role in the future energy systems and future district heating systems are predicted to...
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Results from Annex 50, Heat Pumps in Multi-Family Buildings for Space Heating and DHW, are now available at the Annex website under the "Deliverable" tab. Reports from Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland are now availble. Please feel free to have a look - the page will be constantly updated so...
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The special report released by IEA on May 18, 2021 shows that the pathway to the critical and formidable goal of net zero emissions is narrow, but it brings huge benefits. The report shows that heat pumps and efficient cooling technologies has an important role in reaching the goal. The...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to phase down the production and consumption of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), commonly used in refrigerators, air conditioners, and many other applications. The EPA ambition is to sharply reduce production and consumption of these harmful pollutants by using an allowance allocation and trading program. This...
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The Heat Pumping Technology HPT programme is happy to welcome two new Annexes that have been initiated already in January 2021. Annex 57 Flexibility by implementation of heat pumps in multi-vector energy systems and thermal networks Annex 58 High-Temperature Heat Pumps Annex 57 focuses on the implementation of heat pumps...
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The final report of Annex 49 is now published together with four extensive reports that are focusing on heat pumps in nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB). The Annex 49 was a follow-on of the work in Annex 40 on heat pump concepts for nZEB, with an extended scope from the...
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