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EHPA, heat pumps: the new ‘must' for Europe's Energy Union
EHPA announces the positive trend in heat pump sales across Europe, highlighting the many advantages related to the use of this technology, such as sustainability, competitiveness, security of supply and employment.
After a slight decline and a period of stagnation lasted almost three years, the European heat pump market seems to be recovering now, showing signs of growth, especially in countries such as France and Sweden, the most prosperous markets in terms of heat pump sales.
The news announced by EHPA (European Association of Heat Pumps) has recently found new confirmations, as evidenced by a study, soon available online, containing data and statistics related to sales of heat pumps across 21 European countries.
The "European Heat Pump Market and Statistics Report 2014" clearly shows that, at least in the last two years, after the annus horribilis of 2012, the European heat pumps market is growing again, going from 750,436 units sold in 2012 to 771,245 sold in 2013 (+ 3%).
Figures for 2014 will be available soon and they will probably confirm the current trend, which does not seem to fade nor for the current year, neither for those still to come.
Overall, over the past two decades, nearly 7 million heat pumps have been installed in Europe, the equivalent of about 224GW installed capacity and 120,8TWh energy produced, of which 77,8TWh (about 65%) would be from renewable sources.
These are significant percentages which seem to confirm once again the assumptions made by other field studies about the development of renewables in the coming years, with the biomass at the top, to meet 20% of the world's energy demand by 2030.
France (22.29TWh), Sweden (12.88TWh) and Germany (9.70TWh) are the first three countries, among the 21 tracked, which produced more energy from renewable sources in 2013, thanks to the heat pump technology. Consequently, they have also contributed to the reduction of harmful emissions into the atmosphere, for a total of about 20Mt polluting fumes spared.
Thomas Nowak, Secretary General of EHPA, enthusiastically commented the news, talking about "encouraging" results, not only, of course, for the heat pump industry, but also for the overall EU policy objectives.
Energy efficiency, renewable sources and greenhouse gas emissions reduction not only are the three main features characterizing the heat pump system, but also the three European priority objectives summarised in the Climate-Energy Package 2030 and to be discussed in Paris at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015.
The industry is mature and heat pumps, the ideal solution for residential and industrial heating&cooling, are now a ‘must’ for Europe's Energy Union, as stated by EHPA.
Not only in terms of sustainability, competitiveness and security of supply (given that this technology, combined with renewable sources, such as geothermal, for example, could reset the demand for natural gas from Russia, from which Italy is dependent), but also in terms of local employment and imports of fossil fuels, for which 1 billion euros a day is normally spent around.
The news announced by EHPA (European Association of Heat Pumps) has recently found new confirmations, as evidenced by a study, soon available online, containing data and statistics related to sales of heat pumps across 21 European countries.
The "European Heat Pump Market and Statistics Report 2014" clearly shows that, at least in the last two years, after the annus horribilis of 2012, the European heat pumps market is growing again, going from 750,436 units sold in 2012 to 771,245 sold in 2013 (+ 3%).
Figures for 2014 will be available soon and they will probably confirm the current trend, which does not seem to fade nor for the current year, neither for those still to come.
Overall, over the past two decades, nearly 7 million heat pumps have been installed in Europe, the equivalent of about 224GW installed capacity and 120,8TWh energy produced, of which 77,8TWh (about 65%) would be from renewable sources.
These are significant percentages which seem to confirm once again the assumptions made by other field studies about the development of renewables in the coming years, with the biomass at the top, to meet 20% of the world's energy demand by 2030.
France (22.29TWh), Sweden (12.88TWh) and Germany (9.70TWh) are the first three countries, among the 21 tracked, which produced more energy from renewable sources in 2013, thanks to the heat pump technology. Consequently, they have also contributed to the reduction of harmful emissions into the atmosphere, for a total of about 20Mt polluting fumes spared.
Thomas Nowak, Secretary General of EHPA, enthusiastically commented the news, talking about "encouraging" results, not only, of course, for the heat pump industry, but also for the overall EU policy objectives.
Energy efficiency, renewable sources and greenhouse gas emissions reduction not only are the three main features characterizing the heat pump system, but also the three European priority objectives summarised in the Climate-Energy Package 2030 and to be discussed in Paris at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015.
The industry is mature and heat pumps, the ideal solution for residential and industrial heating&cooling, are now a ‘must’ for Europe's Energy Union, as stated by EHPA.
Not only in terms of sustainability, competitiveness and security of supply (given that this technology, combined with renewable sources, such as geothermal, for example, could reset the demand for natural gas from Russia, from which Italy is dependent), but also in terms of local employment and imports of fossil fuels, for which 1 billion euros a day is normally spent around.
