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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On November 14, bmvit and AIT organized the workshop ”IEA Heat Pumping Technologies Workshop – An Austrian Perspective" in Vienna. Now you can read the presentations from the workshop. Agenda: Research, Development, Demonstration and Deployment of Heat Pumping Technology (Stephan Renz, Chairman of HPT TCP) Read the presentation here The IEA,...
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Two new publications – the Final report and the Executive summary – from the HPT TCP Annex 44 “Performance indicators for energy efficient supermarket buildings” are now published in the publication database and can be downloaded for free as pdf files from our website. Publication links HPT TCP Annex 44 Performance...
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Home heating is the largest energy expense for most U.S. homeowners and accounts for nearly 30 % of energy used in the nation’s residential buildings. Millions of homeowners in colder regions with cold climate of the country do not have natural gas available, leaving furnaces to be fueled with heating...
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The UK air conditioning and refrigeration industry has called on the government to remain aligned to the EU’s F-gas regulations and European safety standards, post Brexit. Responding to the UK Parliament Environmental Audit Committee inquiry, the Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Industry Board (ACRIB) also argued that alignment with the existing...
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On 15-16 November, the Executive Committee (ExCo) of HPT TCP met for their fall meeting in Vienna. Here is a short report from the meeting. During the meeting, the ExCo Chairman Stephan Renz from Switzerland was reelected for a new three year period. Take part of some of Stephan’s thought...
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HPC has received the letter of confirmation from Italy, confirming their joining in Annex 51 "Acoustic Signatures of Heat Pumps" The responsible national expert is Mario Motta (Energy Department, Politecnico di Milano)
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Heat Pumping Technologies in near Zero Emission Buildings (nZEB) Heat pumps is an excellent choice for nZEB and other low energy buildings. This is evidenced in a number of HPT TCP Annexes (projects) that have been devoted to them, Annexes 32, 40 and 49, as well as the number of...
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