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Eurovent Supports an Ambitious Green Recovery Plan
Eurovent calls for an ambitious EU green recovery package that focuses on renovating the EU’s building stock, modernizing the energy system, and investing in digitalization and the circular economy. The next EU budget presents a unique opportunity to reboot the European economy and set it on the track to carbon-neutrality. The COVID-19 crisis will severely impact global economic activity....
Aermec Heat Pumps Help Decarbonize Farming
In two groundbreaking low carbon farming initiatives in East Anglia, the United Kingdom, Aermec’s heat pumps are being used to increase British tomato production by 12%. The projects involve the installation of 29 Aermec heat pumps that will provide 64 MW of heating and is one of the largest heat pump projects in the United Kingdom so far. The heat pumps will capture the waste heat from n...
Camfil Wins Grand Indoor Climate Prize for Its HEPA Filtrati
Camfil has announced that it has won the Grand Indoor Climate Prize in Sweden for its advanced premium high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filtration for cleanrooms. Camfil’s Megalam EnerGuar...
UK Government Plans to Replace RHI with Clean Heat Grant
The UK government has announced that it intends to replace the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) with a new Clean Heat Grant aimed at helping households and businesses to decarbonize through technology and push the country towards its net-zero target for 2050. The RHI was put in place as a means to convert 12% of UK homes to renewable heat by the end of 2020. The government recently announced that th...
LU-VE Increasing Natural Refrigerant Use by Utilizing a Posi
Gruppo BNL/BNP Paribas, an Italian mega bank, has set up a positive loan of €40 million (US$ 45 million) for LU-VE Group, one of the main European producers of static and ventilated heat exchangers for the refrigeration, air conditioning, and industrial process cooling markets. LU-VE Group, which has 3,200 qualified employees, has 16 production facilities in Europe, Russia, China, India, and ...
Chereau Calls for Hydrogen Production at Distribution Sites
France-based Chereau is testing hydrogen-based technology for refrigeration as part of its Road project to develop more sustainable transport refrigeration. Because there are few hydrogen stations for trucks, Chereau proposes to integrate a production and distribution station at each industrial site in the cold logistics chain. Green hydrogen can be produced locally using photovoltaic (PV) panels ...
German Heat Pump Industry Expects Strong Growth
Germany’s heat pump industry is optimistic that new public incentives will boost sales in the coming years, following rather sluggish growth in 2019. Data from the German heat pump association Bundesverband Wärmepumpe (BWP) demonstrate that 86,300 heat pumps were installed in the country in 2019, an increase of 2% compared with the previous year, bringing the total number to 966,000 uni...
Online Launch of Daikin R32 Heat Pump on the Italian Market
Daikin Applied Europe cooperated with Daikin Air Conditioning Italy to stage an online launch event for the new Daikin R32 heat pump in Italy. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the launch on the Italian m...
AHRI Submits Comments on Draft Efficiency Standards for ACs
On June 19, the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) submitted comments to the Superintendencia de Electricidad y Combustibles (SEC) in Chile on its draft protocol of energy efficiency for split and packaged air conditioners up to 42,000 BTU/h. AHRI recommended that the Protocol include a reference to AHRI Testing and Rating Standard 210/240-2017, Performance Rating of Uni...
METUS Introduces Lossnay RVX Energy Recovery Ventilators
On July 8, 2020, Mitsubishi Electric Trane HVAC US (METUS) introduced the nextgeneration Lossnay energy recovery ventilator (ERV) units, the RVX. During the heating season, this high-performance ER...
