Noticias

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 UKs 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.