Heat Pump
Air source replaces ground source at Northeast Eco Centre
21 July 2015 When the Hebburn Eco Centre needed to replace its 20-year-old ground source heating, the building’s owners turned to a cascade air source heat pump system from Mitsubishi Electric. Designed and built by Groundwork South Tyneside and Newcastle (STAN) and opened in 1996, the Eco Centre was a pioneering venture to demonstrate renewable technologies and sustainable design. Today the Ec...
RHI amendment updates installer standards
21 July 2015 Parliamentary undersecretary of state for energy and climate change Lord Bourne has announced the latest amendments to the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). The written ministerial statement on the RHI amendment regulations included updated installer standards for heat pumps, solid biomass and solar thermal. The heat pump installer standard has been updated to bring MCS st...
HPTCJ Receives the 2nd Fredrik Setterwall Award
The Heat Pump and Thermal Storage Technology Center of Japan (HPTCJ), nominated by the Japanese government to be a participant in the Implementing Agreement on Energy Conservation through Energy Stora...
China Heat Pump Industry Alliance Visits Emerson Belgium Fac
China Heat Pump Industry Alliance visited Emerson compressor factory in Belgium, and was warmly welcomed by Guido Wiertz, vice president of Emerson Europe, and Dina Kopke, director of Emerson Governme...
Atlantic Expanding Its Main Plant in La Rochesur- Yon
Atlantic is once again extending its main plant in La Roche-sur-Yon in the Vendee region of France. Founded in 1968, Atlantic now has 650 employees working at La Rochesur- Yon, up from 420 ten years ago. Groupe Atlantic now has a total of 5,500 employees worldwide. Heat pumps, electric water heaters and electric radiators are manufactured at the La Roche-sur-Yon plant. The head office employing 30...
HPC News Letter Features Air Conditioning - A Giant Heat Pum
There is one heat pumping technology with, indeed, a very large number of users worldwide, and which is not normally thought of as a heat pump application. This heat pumping technology is air conditioning, or, more correctly, space cooling. In this issue of the Heat Pump Centre (HPC) Newsletter, HPC takes a look at space cooling markets and trends in North America and Europe (France); HPC p...
EHPA Position Paper on the European Heating & Cooling Strate
During the European Sustainable Energy Week, the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA) published a position paper on the European Heating and Cooling Strategy (the Strategy), a guidance document the European Commission (EC) has announced to publish in autumn 2015. The European heat pump industry stresses the need for such a strategy to realize the huge potential of the heating and cooling s...
Carrier Introduces New Generation of AquaSnap ATWs
Carrier has introduced a new generation of AquaSnap air-to-water (ATW) scroll heat pumps with Greenspeed intelligence. The new generation of 30RQP AquaSnap heat pumps combines both simplicity and inte...
Keymark for Heat Pumps
A new quality label, based on the CEN Keymark scheme, is to be introduced in the European Union (EU) for packaged heat pump units. This is seen as an additional guarantee to the existing CE mark since it involves a third party check on product quality. It will involve verification of performance following existing EU standard procedures, checks on manufacturing processes, and ongoing quality surve...
EPEE Publishes Priorities for Heating & Cooling Strategy
The European Partnership for Energy and the Environment (EPEE) published its Position Paper on the European Commission’s (EC’s) forthcoming Heating and Cooling Strategy during its Annual General Meeting (AGM). EPEE welcomes the EC’s initiative to produce a strategy and puts forward a number of recommendations. Specifically, EPEE lists four aspects that should be taken into consideration whe...
