中文 (Chinese)          Deutsch          Español          Français          Italiano          日本語 (Japanese)          Português

Last updated: 2010-02-08

  Disclaimer and copyright   

The world's leading information centre on heat pumps
 

News

     
 

Mr. Gerald Groff receives the F. Paul Anderson Award

This award, named in honor of F. Paul Anderson, 1927-28 President of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers (ASHRAE), is the Society's highest award. The award honors members for notable achievement, outstanding work or service in any field of the Society. Accomplishments should include exceptional leadership in the HVAC&R industry, ASHRAE, and society. Broad-based activities of outstanding value in consulting, contracting, engineering, design, and related activity within ASHRAE are desired. Previous recipients of this award include Willis Carrier, Sam Lewis, Carl Ashley and Donald Kroecker. Read the ASHRAE press release (pdf) here ›››

 

10th IEA Heat Pump Conference in Tokyo - Early notice

The next IEA HP conference will be held in Tokyo, Japan on May 16 – 19, 2011. Read the early notice and call for papers here ›››

The conference website can be found at www.hpc2011.org

 

Five new IEA HPP Annex proposals approved for finalisation

- read more on how to join!

The five Annex proposals are:

Field Measurements for residential buildings

System using solar thermal energy in combination with heat pumps (title to be determined)

Harmonised test procedures and calculation method for SPF for residential heat pump applications (title to be determined)

Application of Industrial Heat Pumps

Quality installation and maintenance

Read more about how to join the future Annexes here ›››

 

Newsletter topics for 2010 decided

The topics are: "ATES/BTES systems for commercial buildings", "Retrofit heat pumps for buildings", "ETP2010" and "Supermarket refrigeration". More information and deadlines for submitting articles can be found here ›››

 

US agrees on new regional efficiency standards

US leading manufacturers of residential central air conditioners, furnaces, and heat pumps signed an agreement with the leading energy-efficiency advocacy organisations supporting new federal standards for those products. Read the joint press release from AHRI, ACEEE and the Alliance to Save Energy here ›››

 

Previous news in the archive section ›››

 

Introduction

     

Welcome to the IEA Heat Pump Centre (HPC), an international information service for heat pumping technologies, applications and markets. The goal is to accelerate the implementation of heat pumps and related heat pumping technologies, including air conditioning and refrigeration.

      

HPC is the central information activity of the IEA Heat Pump Programme (HPP). HPP operates under the International Energy Agency (IEA) and its participants in different countries cooperate in projects.

Annual Report 2008 (724 kB)

Visit www.iea.org

(PDF file)

 

(HTML format)

 

 

(full version)

 

free

(e-newsletter)

 

Publications

     

Newsletter – The role of heat pumps in future energy systems

The new issue of the IEA Heat Pump Centre Newsletter "The role of heat pumps in future energy systems" is now available online.

Visit the Newsletter section for old issues and information on how to submit articles.

 

HPP Policy Papers

 

Policy Paper I  ››› (PDF file)

 

Policy Paper II ››› (PDF file)

 

 

 

Heat pumps can cut global CO2 emissions by nearly 8% 

HPP brochure, please download ››› (PDF file)

 

 

 

More publications can be found here ›››