Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda for Heat Pumps: Making the technology ready for mass deployment

Heat Pumping technologies use relatively simple thermodynamic cycles to exploit the low temperature renewable heat sources and consequently provide efficient heating and cooling services for building and industries. When it is combined to renewable electricity technologies such as Hydropower, solar PV and wind, it has a potential to provide fully renewable heating and cooling a mass scale. The technology itself is relatively mature and widely used in many locations such as Nordic countries. However, there is still a lot to do to remove the techno-economic barriers for mass market deployment of the heat pump technology at the global level. As such, a System of Systems perspective is needed, that can cope with the growing complexity of the challenges ahead.