Solar & renewable energy Time to move to heat pumps Sharon Oliver of Mitsubishi Electric examines the industry’s rising interest in heat pumps
rising by 9 per cent and well over 1 million heat pumps installed across Europe in 2017 alone. The EPHA also predicts a healthy outlook for heat pump sales, with the top 10 markets growing positively
I and contributing 10.6 TWh of renewable energy, generating 16.9 TWh of useful
heat and saving 2.7Mt of CO2 emissions. The Association also predicts a 36 per cent cost reduction by 2030 or even
sooner if additional technology development kicks in and market framework conditions are adjusted. Germany lead the way in sales and installations, and in terms of technology,
air-source heat pumps accounted for the majority of heat pump sales (around 71 per cent) with the bulk of these being air to water monobloc units. However, the EHPA warns that even this high volume of European sales won’t be sufficient to decarbonise the heating and cooling sector.
1 MILLION UK SALES Here in the UK, the value of heat pumps has also been recognised by the UK Government in helping to reduce household fuel bills and lower the nation’s overall emissions levels. The Committee on Climate Change is forecasting that UK heat pump sales
will rise to over one million units per year by 2030. There has also been a mainstream TV advertising campaign for heat pumps
recently with an advert from E.ON and we ourselves have just announced an association with TV presenter, architect, lecturer and writer, George Clarke, to help promote our Ecodan air source heat pumps. Best known for the Channel 4 programmes George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces,
The Home Show and Restoration Man, George Clarke is a passionate advocate of design excellence and of quality in the construction industry. We have just added an article by George Clarke to our dedicated industry
blog, where he lambasts the UK’s approach to housing as “a disaster” and calls for “change that will transform the house building industry and the quality of homes that we build for generations to come.”
Here in the UK, the value of heat pumps has also been recognised by the UK Government in helping to reduce household fuel bills and lower the nation’s overall emissions levels
RENEWING THE WAY WE HEAT HOMES The need for a change of approach in terms of both sustainable build quality and an increase in the use of renewable technologies could not be clearer with the Government’s Clean Growth Strategy stating that: “Meeting our target of reducing emissions by at least 80 per cent by 2050 implies decarbonising nearly all heat in buildings and most industrial processes.” Launched in October 2017, the Strategy points out that heating in buildings
and industry creates around 32 per cent of total UK emissions, which makes heating a natural target if we are to get anywhere near the ambitious (and legally binding) carbon reduction targets by 2050. One of the major hurdles to decarbonisation though is the fact that almost
Best known for the Channel 4 programmes George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces, The Home Show and Restoration Man, George Clarke is a passionate advocate of design excellence and of quality in the construction industry
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n May, the European Heat Pump Association (EPHA) reported a growing market for renewable technology for the fourth year in a row, with sales
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