Europe
IEA: how the European Union can avoid natural gas shortages
12 December 2022 IEA report sets out key actions to close potential supply-demand gap if Russian pipeline deliveries fall to zero, including more rapid deployments of energy efficiency and re...
Grand Reopening of NIBE’s Newly Refurbished Chesterfield Hea
12 Dec 2022 The grand reopening of NIBE Energy Systems Ltd’s flagship Heat Pump Training Academy in Chesterfield took place on Friday December 9th, after the closure of the site for r...
Nothing Compares to Studying Refrigeration
12 Dec 2022 In the third interview with Trailblazer Apprentices, the IOR talked to Rhys Peart, who is now studying marine engineering at Warsash Maritime School. When I talked to Rhy...
5.5 RUSSIA
Reported by Litvinchuk Marketing The Russian chiller market grew by 13% year on year in 2021, mainly pushed up by construction of hospitals, data centers, and industrial facilities. Russia...
5.3 TURKEY
Reported by ISKID, Turkish air conditioning and refrigeration manufacturers’ association After spending the year 2020 in the shadow of the pandemic, Turkey entered 2021 with relatively higher...
Almost 60% of Swiss Buildings Heated by Fossil Fuels
The Swiss Federal Statistical Office reported that, in 2021, there were 1.77 million residential buildings and 4.69 million dwellings in Switzerland. Of them, 58% were heated by fossil fuels such as oil and gas while 17% were equipped with heat pumps. The share of the latter has quadrupled since 2000. In terms of the population, one person in four had gas heating. ...
Daikin Chillers in Major District Cooling Project in Italy
Daikin announced on October 6 that it recently supplied two water-cooled centrifugal chillers from the DWSC range with a total cooling capacity of 5 MW for a major district cooling project in Milan, I...
Switching to Heat Pumps in Germany Generates Savings
By switching from gas to a heat pump, consumers can save several hundred euros a year. This is the conclusion of an expert report by the consulting company Prognos on behalf of BWP, the German heat pump association. The BWP and the VZBV, the federation of German consumer organizations, are calling on the federal government to create a legal framework for large-scale conversion to heat pumps as qui...
EHPA Remarks Its 22nd Anniversary with Heat Pump Forum
On September 28, 2022, the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA) celebrated its 22nd anniversary while hosting the Heat Pump Forum at Atomium in Brussels, Belgium. The forum was a hybrid event where t...
Daikin Chemical Europe's new Innovation Center in Dortmund,
09/12/2022 Daikin Chemical Europe has opened its new Innovation Center at one of the largest innovation ecosystems in Germany, the Phönix West Technology Park in Dortmund. The building offers ap...
