BELGIUM: The European Heat Pump Affiliation (EHPA) has explained today’s F-fuel vote as a main setback for heat pumps in Europe.
In a vote on amendments to the European F-gasoline revision proposals, the European Parliament’s atmosphere committee voted to rapid-observe the stage down of F-gases in a variety of purposes, together with warmth pumps. The vote represents a ban on machines containing F-gases, in some scenarios as early as 2026.
In a press statement, the EHPA said that the effect this would have on heat pumps clashes with the EU’s decarbonisation and energy safety ambitions – as properly as with the REPowerEU targets – which connect with for yearly hydronic warmth pump product sales to double, with 10 million more units to be marketed by early 2027.
Extrapolating the underlying advancement fee to air-to-air warmth pumps, which the EHPA claims perform a sizeable part to decarbonise heating and cooling in the Nordics and the Mediterranean, it calculates that there will be 60 million additional heating (air-to-air, hydronic) and incredibly hot water warmth pumps put in in Europe by 2030, on best of the 2021 stock of 17 million units.
“MEPs ought to not slam down equally the accelerator and the brake pedals at once”, commented EHPA secretary general Thomas Nowak. “The EU wants to decarbonise and get off fossil fuels in heating with prime priority. It has recognised heat pumps as the answer – so, the highway forward requires to be cleared of obstacles, not blocked off. The industry is fully commited to the safe and sound handling of refrigerants and the transition to refrigerants with a reduced worldwide warming potential, with the intention of reaching zero emission through warmth pump technological know-how by 2050.”
The EHPA argues that the warmth pump sector has by now pledged to support the shift from F-gases to “natural” refrigerants when attainable and suggests it has by now achieved considerable progress in the monobloc outdoor unit phase.
“The implementation of new merchandise requirements and developing codes will also participate in a important purpose in this transition,” the EHPA states.
“However, ENVI’s position on an accelerated stage-out fails to take into account current production and installation capability. It challenges drastically limiting the amount of warmth pumps out there in sure marketplace segments pushing shoppers again to fossil fuels, with much worse effects for overall health and the earth.
“Therefore, a a lot more granular method and timeline are key to permitting the heat pump field to deliver on the REPowerEU goals,” it provides.
“Every warmth pump is superior for the climate and electricity safety than a gas boiler, and when every single day counts on the road to decarbonisation, rushing this up must be the utmost priority,” mentioned the EHPA’s head of EU affairs Jozefien Vanbecelaere.
The Parliament’s vote is anticipated through the 29-30 March plenary session.
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