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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HPT TCP Annex 53 (participant Baolong Wang (Tsinghua University) partners with Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. (leading Chinese heat pump system manufacturer) to capture Grand Prize in the Global Cooling Prize contest. On April 29, Sir Richard Branson announced the Gree/Tsinghua team as co-winners (along with the Daikin group team) of...
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During the closing ceremony of the 13th IEA Heat Pump Conference, which took place onsite in in Jeju, Korea and online, the 14th IEA Heat Pump Conference was launched by Brian Fricke, the Chairman of the National Organizing Committee. The conference will have the theme “Heat Pumps – Resilient and...
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In a ceremony held digitally at the closing session of the 13th IEA Heat Pump Conference in Jeju Korea on April 29 2021, the winners of the prestigious Peter Ritter von Rittinger International Heat Pump Award, the highest international award in the air conditioning, heat pump and refrigeration field were...
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