Argentina is still widely using R22 hydrofluorcarbon (HCFC) refrigerant for commercial refrigeration. During two conferences that were organised in Argentina in December, ten leading Italian refrigeration manufacturers have been called upon to present their innovations and research activities. This was an initiative by the Argentine and Italian Ministries of the...
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USA: A new bill introduced by a group of US senators from both parties could pave the way for the US adoption of the Kigali amendment to phase down HFC refrigerants. Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana and Democrat Tom Carper of Delaware have introduced the American Innovation and Manufacturing...
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We are happy to announce that The USA has now formally joined IEA HPT Annex 52. We welcome our new participating country and look forward to working together and learning from American GSHP monitoring projects and experience. Contact person for the US-team is Professor Jeffrey D Spitler, at Oklahoma State...
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HPC announces that Annex 45 - "Hybrid heat pumps" - will be joined by Canada. The effort will be led by Roberto Sunyé, project manager at CanmetENERGY.
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Heat pump sales hit a record 78,000 in Germany in 2017, according to figures from the industry association Bundesverband Wärmepumpe (BWP). According to the latest BWP report, government subsidies for heat pumps and the stricter energy saving requirements saw sales rise by 17% compared to 2016 – itself a record...
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The upgrading of Chinese people's consumption habits could further accelerate the supply-side reform of ACs (air conditioning products). Smart and energy-efficient products will become hot spots in the market. From January to September 2017, the retail sales volume of products with the highest energy efficiency increased by 79.2 % year...
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Measurements from NASA’s Aura satellite are said to show that the decline in chlorine, resulting from the ban on CFCs, has resulted in about 20 % less ozone depletion during the Antarctic winter than there was in 2005 – the first year that measurements of chlorine and ozone during the...
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One of the world’s most important financial and development institutions, the World Bank Group (WBG), is to stop financing oil and gas exploration, in a bid to help combat climate change. After 2019, the WBG – which includes the World Bank and three other institutions – will stop investing in upstream...
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