News from Project 62

After 3 years, Project 62 is wrapped. The participating countries (Belgium, China, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland) spent their efforts on exploring heat pump solutions for multi-family buildings in high density cities. Through a number of different tasks (see image), the findings of Project 62 offer insights on a holistic framework that couples a refined General Classification of heat pump solutions with an expanding case-study database and a decision-support tool to...

Across Europe and much of the industrialized world, cities are grappling with one of the largest energy transitions of our time: how to decarbonize the heating of homes and buildings. Heating represents a significant share of global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, particularly in urban areas where multi-family residential...

Heating is political, complex, and crucial for Europe’s climate goals. Although the sector is responsible for almost half of Europe’s energy consumption, its necessary decarbonization is often overshadowed by dry debates. The heating transition book combines strong technological and political messages with a playful comic style – because the book...

In Cornwall, the southest tip of the United Kingdom, a new project showcases a twenty-first century modern heating vision with networked heat pumps. The Heat the Streets initiative has provided practical evidence that networked ground source heat pumps offer a viable and scalable alternative to the UK’s traditional gas infrastructure....

Share your best practices and successes, but also seek their advice and expertise on the blocking points of your optimization? Take advantage of collective intelligence to overcome optimization bottlenecks, while creating best practices and avoiding pitfalls in your current and future projects? Those questions motivated the creation of “Suivi et...

The growing collection of the case studies is showing the diversification of implemented solutions, but above all it clearly demonstrates the versatility of heat pumps in multi-family buildings. From centralized solutions to heat pumps installed in each apartment, classic or new heat source concepts, in combination with other energy sources...

Sweden is proud to announce its active participation in Annex 62: Heat Pumps for Multi-Family Residential Buildings in Cities, a significant initiative under the Technology Collaboration Programme on Heat Pumping Technologies (HPT TCP). This collaborative project addresses the growing demand for innovative and efficient heating solutions in high-density urban areas....

The Swiss team is happy to share that they have officially joined this international collaboration project. The main objective of the Swiss project is to pool the experience gained in retrofitting heat production in existing residential multi-family buildings, mainly with monovalent and bivalent air-to-water heat pumps. The aim is to...

In the beginning of June 2024, HPT TCP Annex 62 “Heat Pumps for Multi-Family Residential Buildings in Cities” organized a digital webinar workshop on the theme “General Classification of Heat Pumps in Residential Buildings”. The goal of the event, that involved about 70 participants, was to attain information about questions...

The HPT TCP Annex 62 “Heat Pumps for Multi-Family Residential Buildings in Cities” calls for experts and stakeholders in the fields of heat pumps, residential buildings and other related areas to join us in the Webinar Workshop “Discussion of the General Classification”. The HPT TCP Annex 62 – still ongoing...