Go directly to the webinar here. On the 30th June, IEA held a webinar with the title: Residential Test Methods for Air Conditioners. Some background Energy consumed by air conditioning systems has tripled since 1990: no other building end-use is growing as fast. Air conditioning not only makes up a significant...
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- Heat pumps and efficient air conditioners are a cornerstone of buildings sector decarbonisation, and can benefit from spill-over innovation mechanisms On July 2 IEA released the first part of the Energy Technology Perspectives 2020 – The Special Report on Clean Energy Innovation The unprecedented health emergency and economic crisis...
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The IEA has released its Sustainable Recovery Plan, providing suggestions for how governments can simultaneously boost economic growth, create millions of jobs and build more resilient and cleaner energy systems. It shows ways to integrate energy policies into government responses to the economic shock caused by the Covid-19 crisis, helping...
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A man with a burning interest in how to make things quieter reducing the sound emissions The reduction of CO2 emissions is on everyone’s lips these days. But to make this happen, a multitude of actions are needed. Heat pumps are an environmentally friendly and renewable energy technology, but to...
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Energy-related CO2 emissions from buildings have risen in recent years after flattening between 2013 and 2016. Direct and indirect emissions from electricity and commercial heat used in buildings rose to 10 GtCO2 in 2019, the highest level ever recorded. Several factors have contributed to this rise, including growing energy demand...
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The Technology Collaboration Programme on Heat Pumping Technologies (HPT TCP) Annual Report for 2019 is now published and can be downloaded from our website. The Annual Report describes the work of the Programme during 2019 including Message from the Chairman, information about our Annexes, and the highlights of 2019. This...
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We hereby want to announce that the 13th International Energy Agency Heat Pump Conference once more will be postponed. The new date is April 26 - 29, 2021 and the location for the event remains the same: Jeju, South Korea. As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic situation is not recovering and...
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The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released a report on the market for renewable energy, concentrating on the impact that the Covid-19 crisis has had on the different parts of the market. The report focuses on generation of electricity from renewable sources, but it also discusses transport biofuels as well...
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