On October 2 Caroline Haglund Stignor, assistant manager of HPC, attended the national co-ordination day of the Technology Collaboration Programmes (TCPs) in Prague, Czech Republic. The meeting was arranged by the Ministry of Industry and trade and of the Czech republic, and the Technology Platform “Sustainable Energy for the Czech Republic” (TPUE)...
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Press release from European Heat Pump Asociation (EHPA) The EHPA market outlook is out and it reveals a growing market for the 4th year in a row! At the end of the year, the counter had reached 10.6 million, the result of 1.11 million units sold in 2017 (+10%). Signs from...
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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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