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EGSHPA Launch

London – May 23rd 2011 – The European Ground Source Heat Pump Association (EGSHPA), an independent industry body established to support the interests of the geothermal industry, has this week gone live with its new web portal and online ‘magazine’ offering.

Heavily focused on the technology and engineering issues that concern ground source heat pumps, www.egshpa.com will serve to engage the community with informative data as well as thought-provoking discussion and opinion. Members of EGSHPA itself will use the new portal to encourage non-members to engage in proactive discussions.

This engaging resource has videos to help explain the processes that are currently driving the industry. There are online tools for user energy cost calculations, as well as case studies and articles to help grow the user’s knowledge base.

EurObserv’ER has released its annual publication ‘The State of Renewable Energies in Europe’, a synthesis of the Technology Barometers published during 2010 (with data up to and including 2009). The publication gives detailed capacity and energy performance data for all 27 Member States of the European Union for all renewable energy technologies.

EHPA award "Heat pump city of the year"

Europe's climate protection and energy savings targets are demanding. It requires immediate action on all political levels to achieve meaningful results by 2020 already. Heat pumps are an available, reliable, efficient and cost effective solution in this quest. Unfortunately the technology is often very well hidden in basements and technic-rooms of buildings.

Recommendations from the UK’s heat pump trial

Results have been published from the UK’s largest field trial monitoring 83 heat pumps installed in UK homes. The trial has been undertaken to determine the key factors that impact the performance of domestic heat pumps.

Conducted by the Energy Saving Trust, one of the UK's leading organisations set up to mitigate the effects of climate change, the field trial considered both technical parameters, such as system sizing and installation, as well as customer feedback and behaviour.

The findings show the heat pump performance to be highly dependent upon appropriate installation and integration with the building’s existing heating system, as well as appropriate control by the customer. As a result, the Energy Saving Trust is calling on industry to improve heat pump installation techniques to ensure they become a quality and mainstream technology for householders.

Zero Carbon Britain possible in 2030.

A report by the UK's Centre for Alternative Technology offers a roadmap for addressing carbon emissions in the UK. It proposes a 90% reduction by 2030, which will be possible thanks to applying heat pumps at a large scale and reducing f-gas emissions among other measures.