Heat pumps are designed to move heat from colder place to warm, with the help of electricity. Regions where heating and cooling needs are moderate, these pumps are efficient alternatives to furnaces and air conditioners. The demand for heat pumps will witness moderate growth on account of changing climatic, government...
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Recent elections have led to a lively debate about the future of climate action. Many ask if the historic breakthrough in Paris last year will now be put to rest. While politics does matter, no election result is going to change this simple fact: climate solutions will continue to make...
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Image above: The darker the color the country is marked by - the more readers it has. Today it is five weeks since we released the first issue of the HPT Magazine - a development of the former HPC Newsletter. Nowadays you can read the entire magazine - and not...
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During the meeting with the Executive Committe of the HPT TCP last week in France a new collaborative research project was approved to get started within the Programme, “HPT TCP Annex 51 Acoustic signatures of heat pumps”. The primary aim is to increase the acceptance of heat pumps for comfort...
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Last week the ExCo delegates of HPT TCP met for four days of meetings (7-10 November) in Sophia Antipolis in France. Among the special items handled, was the planning for the 12th IEA Heat Pump Conference that will take place in Rotterdam in the Netherlands 15-18 May next year. Also the...
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Welcome to the new website of HPT TCP! Following the new layout of the HPT Magazine (formerly HPC Newsletter) comes a brand new website for the Technology Collaboration Programme on Heat Pumping Technologies (HPT TCP). As you can see, the address no longer reflects the Heat Pump Centre, but the whole programme:...
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A historic climate deal was earlier this month in Kigali, Rwanda at the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MOP28). The 1987 landmark Montreal Protocol was designed to close the growing hole in the ozone layer by banning ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons...
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Welcome to the new Heat Pumping Technologies Magazine – or in short: HPT Magazine! The Magazine is a development of the former HPC Newsletter, updated with a new layout, more focus on the Annexes and the possibility to read it on issuu (a digital publishing platform). Another update is that...
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