Heat Pump
2030 climate and energy framework: the Parliament calls for
Jan. 09, 2014 Parliament’s joint Environment (ENVI) and Energy (ITRE) Committee has recognised the importance of heating and cooling in today’s vote on a 2030 framework for climate and energy policies...
Danfoss heat pump course offers installers opportunity to up
7 January 2014 Danfoss is running a course that offers an introduction to heat pumps (HP1) for those who are new to renewable energy and who are working within the plumbing, heating or building trade....
Toshiba introduces new range of compact outdoor condensing u
6 January 2014 Toshiba Air Conditioning (a division of Toshiba Carrier UK Limited) has introduced a new range of compact outdoor condensing units. Toshiba claims the Series 4 units are as much ...
New legislation in Flanders (Belgium) likely to result in ri
Jan. 02, 2014 From the 1st of January 2014, it is no longer possible to build a house in Flanders (northern region of Belgium) without having a system to generate renewable energy. One of the possibil...
Sales Growth of ATW Heat Pump to Surpass 13% in 2013
According to the data from the 2013 China Water Heater Industry Annual Conference, overall retail sales volume and value of water heaters in China enjoyed 13% and 23% year-on-year growth respectively for the first half of the year. From January to June, retail sales value of electric water heaters came to RMB 12 billion, indicating 18% year on- year growth. Its retail sales volume was 8.19 ...
GSHP Put into Operation in Northern China
Heating station in Tianjin Baodi Economic Development Zone was put into operation on November 15, which was the first project applying ground-source heat pump (GSHP) technology for heating in northern...
Central A/C and Heat Pump Shipments Jump 23 Percent in Octob
20/12/2013 Arlington, Va. -- Combined United States shipments of central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps totaled 363,465 units in October 2013, up 23.3 percent from 294,678 units shipped in October 2012, according to the latest statistics from the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI). U.S. shipments of central air conditioners increased 25.8 percent, to 243,692 ...
Quality in Geothermal Installations
Some notable failures in the design and installation of geothermal systems (both shallow depth horizontal and vertical borehole techniques) for heat pumps led a proposal at the November geothermal congress this year in Germany for a unified code of practice. Eight organizations signed up to the proposal and the first draft is expected early next year. The Code will cover design, installation, docu...
HPC Newsletter Features Heat Pumps for Cold Climates
The market for heat pumps is growing. However, heat pump sales in some cold climate areas have been limited, especially air-source heat pumps (ASHPs). This is partly due to competition from other type...
AHRI Releases October 2013 U.S. Heating and Cooling Equipmen
December 13, 2013 Residential Storage Water Heaters U.S. shipments of residential gas storage water heaters for October 2013 increased 12.5 percent, to 366,125 units, up from 325,487 units shipped in ...
