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Key takeaways from Poland’s Enex Expo The record-breaking size and bustling halls of Enex Expo showed that the Polish PV market has no intention of slowing down. While last year’s switch from net metering to net billing is expected to continue to reverberate through the residential solar market, the commercial and industrial (C&I) and utility-scale PV market segments stand ready to pick up the slack.
Marija Maisch
Mar 15, 2023
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Markets & Policy
German manufacturer opens heat pump factory in Slovakia Vaillant has revealed that it has opened a new heat pump factory in Slovakia. The facility will exclusively make heat pumps from May, with an expected annual output of 300,000 units.
Beatriz Santos
Mar 15, 2023
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New propane heat pump for space, water heating Italy-based Rhoss has developed a cascaded air-source heat pump that uses propane (R290) as the refrigerant. It can produce between 47.4 kW and 190.5 kW of heat and domestic hot water to a temperature of up to 75 C.
Beatriz Santos
Mar 14, 2023
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Irish provider showcases air-to-air heat pump for commercial applications Trane has released a rooftop air-to-air heat pump that can produce between 14.5 kW and 37.4 kW of heat and between 16.5 kW and 38.4 kW of cooling. The new device can purportedly be adapted to cold-climate applications by adding complementary heating sources such as electric heaters or hot water coils.
Beatriz Santos
Mar 13, 2023
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Renewables-powered heat pump for district heating South Korean researchers have developed a heat trading system including a ground-source heat pump, solar thermal collectors, a fuel-cell system, and two heat storage tanks for district heating at hours of peak solar production.
Beatriz Santos
Mar 10, 2023
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State of the (European) union Gerard Reid, co-founder of corporate finance advisory Alexa Capital, considers whether the EU is up to the task of dealing with the twin threats of the energy crisis and the pull of a revitalized US clean power industry.
Gerard Reid
Mar 09, 2023
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Study shows symbiotic effect of heat pumps and residential solar SolarPower Europe says in a new report that households in Germany, Spain, and Italy can more than triple their savings by pairing PV with heat pumps. It said this combination helped families to save between 62% and 84% on their annual energy bills in 2022.
Beatriz Santos
Mar 09, 2023
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Fraunhofer ISE, Viessmann develop multi-source residential heat pump Fraunhofer ISE has presented the results of retrofit heat pump installations in multi-family homes in Germany. One demonstrator featured rooftop solar PV and a multi-source heat pump developed in partnership with Viessmann. It uses air and geothermal as heat sources.
Beatriz Santos
Mar 08, 2023
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Heat pumps vs. renewables – a dilemma for Germany’s way out of gas Researchers have looked at whether Germany can substitute more gas with renewables-powered heat pumps or renewable electricity to reduce load hours at gas-fired power plants. They argue that heat pumps are the fastest way to cut German gas consumption.
Beatriz Santos
Mar 07, 2023
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