This Eurofound research paper explores the decarbonisation of residential heating through the adoption of heat pumps, a key component in the EU's strategy to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Heat pumps offer a highly efficient alternative to traditional heating systems, leveraging renewable...

This Eurofound research paper explores the decarbonisation of residential heating through the adoption of heat pumps, a key component in the EU's strategy to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Heat pumps offer a highly efficient alternative to traditional heating systems, leveraging renewable...

This report provides an update on the state of the art of heat pump technology, including its application in buildings, industry, and district heating and cooling. It presents installed capacity, sales and projections, and an analysis of research and development trends. It also discusses EU...

Heat pumps are crucial devices for the clean energy transition, aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050. These systems are highly efficient, using less energy than traditional boilers by extracting and upgrading ambient energy from the air, ground, or water. This energy can be used for heating,...

To tackle climate change, residential heating must become climate-neutral. Which technology cost-efficiently achieves this goal is a complex question, given the heterogeneity of buildings and existing infrastructure, as well as the uncertainty regarding future energy prices and grid fees. This...

The energy transition is a major challenge for both Germany and France. This Weekly Report provides an overview of the short- and long-term goals as well as current developments and trends in France’s energy and climate policy. It reveals that France is largely on track with its greenhouse...

Die Reform des Gebäudeenergiegesetzes zielt darauf ab, den Anteil erneuerbarer Energien im Gebäudebereich zu erhöhen. Die vorgesehenen Maßnahmen, insbesondere der forcierte Einsatz von Wärmepumpen, sind jedoch ökologisch ineffektiv, da mögliche CO2-Einsparungen im Rahmen des nationalen...

This report was created within the project "Overview of Heating and Cooling: Perceptions, Markets and Regulatory Frameworks for Decarbonisation." The focus of this report is on the evaluation of the final cost for owning and operating district heating (DH) connections and heat pumps (HPs) for...

This paper uses a whole-system approach to examine different strategies related to the future role of the gas grid in a low-carbon heat system. A novel model of integrated gas, electricity and heat systems, HEGIT, is used to investigate four key sets of scenarios for the future of the gas grid...

With the improvement of people's living standards all over the world, the demand for cooling (both space cooling and refrigeration) continues to grow. The increase in cooling-related energy consumption has a growing impact on global climate change. The importance of improving the energy...

Due to the ongoing expansion of renewable energies and the increasing energy demand of household consumers, e.g., due to the electrification of the mobility and heating sectors, grid bottlenecks and voltage band violations in low-voltage grids in Germany are expected to occur more frequently in...

The UK government's plans to decarbonise residential heating will mean major changes to the energy system whatever the specific technology pathway chosen, driving a range of impacts on users and suppliers. We use an energy system model (UK TIMES) to identify the potential energy system impacts...

Buildings contribute to approximately 28% of global energy-related emissions. Heat pumps is a key technology for decarbonizing heating emissions of buildings. This study focuses on ground source heat pumps (GSHP) which is increasingly used in colder regions. Since for an average home the capital...

The hybrid heating system consisting of loop heat pipe solar collector (LHPSC) and ground source heat pump (GSHP) was proposed to maintain greenhouse temperature in Harbin (the coldest provincial capital of China) in this paper. The thermal model was developed to predict transient greenhouse and...

The deployment of renewable energy technologies in the home, such as heat pump systems, is increasingly encouraged in many countries to curb climate change and dependence on fossil fuels. However, the adoption process is not well-understood. In this paper, we develop an agent-based model to...

Even though an electric vehicle has the advantage of high efficiency, low emission, and more space in the engine room as the combustion engine is not used, it has the disadvantage that consumes the stored energy of the battery a lot for heating and defogging due to the absence of the waste heat...

The feasibility of using air-water heat pumps to provide residential and industrial buildings with heating, cooling and ventilation requires taking into account a large number of different factors, such as the estimated and average outdoor temperature for the heating period in the considered...

Renewable energy is a key for sustainable development all over the world and renewables used in many areas including water heating. For water heating, among many options, electrical and solar energy can be used to assist heat pumps. This study explores usage of photovoltaic and thermal...

Increasing the use of heat pumps is an important measure for reducing carbon emissions in the heating sector as well as natural gas imports. This report uses an electricity sector model to investigate the effects of an accelerated expansion of the heat pump stock on the German electricity sector...

Heat pumps play an important role in the electrification of the residential sector. The electrification of building energy consumption can have a significant impact on the load management of the electric grid. This study provides the first empirical investigation of the changes in hour-of-day...

This paper addresses the following question: How can smart energy management system (SEMS) influence the residential electricity consumption at both individual household and national level? First, we developed an hourly optimization model for individual households. The energy cost of an...

Eine effektive und kosteneffiziente Klimaschutzpolitik sollte vorwiegend auf den Preismechanismus und den Emissionshandel setzen. Dieser existiert in der Europäischen Union seit dem Jahr 2005, umfasst aber nur wenige Sektoren wie die Energiewirtschaft und die Industrie. In anderen Sektoren wird...

Eine effektive und kosteneffiziente Klimaschutzpolitik sollte vorwiegend auf den Preismechanismus und den Emissionshandel setzen. Dieser existiert in der Europäischen Union seit dem Jahr 2005, umfasst aber nur wenige Sektoren wie die Energiewirtschaft und die Industrie. In anderen Sektoren wird...

Heat pumps have been proposed as the leading technology in the electrification of domestic heat and therefore could play a crucial part in the transition to low-carbon energy systems. However, there is very little causal evidence of the impact of heat pumps on energy demand and the impact of...

Over the last two decades, U.S. households have received $47 billion in tax credits for buying heat pumps, solar panels, electric vehicles, and other "clean energy" technologies. Using information from tax returns, we show that these tax credits have gone predominantly to higher-income...

Buildings' heating represents an important share of the total energy consumption in Italy, and to reach the challenging decarbonization targets set by the EU by 2050, a combination of measures and technologies will be required. This working paper presents an analysis of different scenarios...

With the increasing amount of building renovations in Austria, the potential increases for replacing conventional national gas heating systems with heat pumps (HP) and thereby reduce CO2 emissions particularly when combined with solar photovoltaics (PV). The Austrian subsidization scheme for HP...

This paper examines the economic and environmental impacts of the adoption path of electric vehicles (EVs) and home retrofitting in the form of heat pumps (HPs) projected in the recent Climate Action Plan (CAP21) for Ireland. This analysis assumes the level of carbon tax follows the path...

The UK has adopted ambitious climate targets aiming to reach net zero GHG emissions by 2050). One pathway for decarbonisation is the electrification of space heating, at the same time as the power system is decarbonised through a rising share of renewable sources. Heat pumps (HP) offer a...

Die Reform des Gebäudeenergiegesetzes zielt darauf ab, den Anteil erneuerbarer Energienim Gebäudebereich zu erhöhen. Die vorgesehenen Maßnahmen, insbesondere der forcierteEinsatz von Wärmepumpen, sind jedoch ökologisch ineffektiv, da mögliche CO2-Einsparungenim Rahmen des nationalen...