ITALY: The proposed F-fuel stage down has been described as unrealistic and extremely optimistic, when starving the sector of HFCs for the rollout of the heat pumps.
Speaking at today’s 20th European RACHP Conference in Milan, EPEE director standard Russell Patten admitted that a ban on HFCs was no longer the concern. “The challenge is in the end about the transition time and are there solutions? And I consider the crux of the subject is pretty considerably how the regulation will be finalised and applied,” he mentioned.
His fears are backed by an unbiased study carried out on behalf of EPEE by consultant, and F-gas professional, Ray Gluckman, which arrived to incredibly unique viewpoints than those in the European Commission’s AnaFgas model.
Patten highlighted just two important points of the impartial evaluation: “The cuts proposed by the Commission for 2024, for 2027, for 2030 and for 2033 are unrealistic and are centered on extremely optimistic assumptions about the fee of technologies transition to reduce GWP gases and to the amount of HFCs necessary for servicing current gear. Secondly, with the cuts proposed by the Fee in this interval, they would also be insufficient HFCs to assist the rollout of the heat pumps. We’re hunting at 60 million heat pumps by 2030. Let’s be truthful, it’s not likely to materialize with a little bit of HFCs and it is about the pragmatism which we will need to face.”
It was also claimed that modelling of power similar emissions supplied extra insights, which ended up not offered less than the AnaFgas product. “In certain, the amount of money of CO2 emissions avoided via the decarbonisation of heating with heat pumps massively outweighs the little amounts of HFCs emissions from these pretty identical warmth pumps.”
Russell Patten emphasised that it was a lot more essential to maximise the speed of the warmth pump rollout than to pressure an “unrealistic rate” of refrigerant improve. “We are not asking for 10-20 yrs we are inquiring for two, 3, four years. It is not little in the over-all scheme of points.”