Europe
LU-VE Pioneers Green Approach
In March 2024, JARN visited LU-VE’s headquarters in Uboldo, Varese, Italy, and interviewed Fabio Liberali, chief identity and communication officer, member of the board of directors, and chief c...
Olympic Games Paris 2024 Face a Dilemma –How to Cool the Ath
Compiled and edited by Susan Phalippou, JARN’s European correspondent Olympic Games Paris 2024 were staged on July 26 to August 11, and the athletes impressed the world with their amazing prowess. But many athletes were faced with a dilemma: whether or not to install air conditioners in the apartments in which they stayed. And the organizers were faced with another dilemma: to enable athl...
LU-VE Enters the Nuclear Energy Sector in the UK
LU-VE has signed – through its Friulian subsidiary Refrion – an agreement to supply cooling systems for the emergency diesel generators (EDGs) on the nuclear island of the Hinkley Point C power plant in Somerset, the United Kingdom. The value of the contract, signed with the Nuclear New Build Generation Company (NNB) through the UK contractor Bouygues Energies & Services, is for ap...
Slowdown in Heat Pump Sales Threatens European Targets
Following a boom decade, heat pump sales in the European Union (EU) dropped by 6.5% in 2023, indicating a potential shortfall that threatens Europe’s 2030 climate targets. This finding emerges from data in the latest heat pump market report published by the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA). A total of 3. 02 million heat pumps were sold in the EU in 2023, and the total number of insta...
Aira to Manufacture up to 500,000 Heat Pumps a Year in Polan
Aira, a Swedish clean energy-tech company, recently inaugurated a production site in Wroclaw, Poland. Benefitting from an investment of €300 million (about US$ 325 million), the new 220,000-m2 pr...
Samsung Climate Solutions Joins Forces with Unitherm
Samsung Climate Solutions and Unitherm in the United Kingdom have announced that they have entered into a partnership which will enable them to deliver innovative heating solutions to both the residen...
Waste Heat from Danish Data Center to Heat Local Community
Meta, the leading social media giant, has minimized the energy, emissions, and water impact of its data center in Odense, Denmark. The company’s Odense data center built in 2017 was designed to ...
Paul Kenny Is EHPA’s New Director General
Paul Kenny will become the new director general of the EHPA from September 2024, replacing Thomas Nowak, who stepped down earlier this year. Mr. Kenny is a mechanical engineer with a Master’s de...
Baxi Opens New Training Facility in UK
Baxi, a heating solution provider, has opened its new Solution Academy at its Warwick headquarters in the United Kingdom, increasing its annual installer training capacity on the site to 2,000 in 2025. For the first time, a Baxi training facility will have a dedicated solutions training room, allowing installers to acquire hands-on experience of the company’s complete residential and commerc...
SWEP Innovative New SWEP 190 Range of BPHEs
Stringent new F-gas Regulations are driving the transition to natural, low-global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants in the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) ind...
