Leading Companies Commercialising Heat Pumps?
Heat pumps can halve the CO2 intensity of residential heating while also lowering costs by c10-35% in some cases. This all creates an exciting opportunity for heat pumps in the…
Heat pumps: hot and cold?
Some policymakers now aspire to ban gas boilers and ramp heat pumps 10x by 2050. In theory, the heat pump technology is superior. But in practice, there are ten challenges….
Refrigerants: leading chemicals for the rise of heat pumps?
What chemicals are used as refrigerants? This data-file is a breakdown of the c1MTpa market for refrigerants, across refrigerators, air conditioners, in vehicles, industrial chillers, and increasingly, heat pumps. The…
Global heat pump sales by country?
…heat pumps sold per million inhabitants, then fell back to 6M heat pumps sold in 2024, with YoY declines in 7 out of the 14 countries/regions in our data-file (the…
Ground source heat pumps: the economics?
This data-file models heat pump economics, costs, energy savings and potential CO2 savings of a ground source heat pump (GHP), compared to traditional home heating and cooling options. A GHP…
Heat pumps: a screen of providers and reviews?
This data-file tabulates our subjective opinions on c20 different heat pump companies, and our own preferences to use their heat pump on a future European residential heating project. Factors we…
Decarbonize Heat?
…prices. Heat pumps can be cost-competitive, if powered from the grid, and our screen of leading heat pump companies is presented on page 6. Running heat pumps purely off of…
Costs of home heating technologies
…data-file. The data file has been expanded to capture ground source heat pumps, blue hydrogen boilers and green hydrogen boilers. Heat pumps may save 50-70% of CO2, while raising total…
Pump costs: energy economics of electric pumps?
…economics of electric pumps, which are used to move liquids in industrial applications, for commercial/domestic use such as within heat pumps, for demand shifting, for supercritical CO2, in geothermal applications,…
Industrial heat: the myth of electrify everything?
…of water and steam make this industry one of the least heat-efficient globally. Heat exchangers and heat pumps can help. But they may actually increase CO2 intensity if electricity replaces…