Heat Pumps News
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University of Tennessee Baker School, TVA Release Landmark Clean Energy Study
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs presented the results of a landmark Valley Pathways Study on February 14, 2024, at the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors for the Tennessee Valley Authority. The study is the first of its kind for the region - which includes parts of seven Southeast states. This study quantifies carbon emission ...
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Major Growth of Clean Energy Limited the Rise in Global Emissions in 2023
Global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rose less strongly in 2023 than the year before even as total energy demand growth accelerated, new IEA analysis shows, with continued expansion of solar PV, wind, nuclear power and electric cars helping the world avoid greater use of fossil fuels. Without clean energy technologies, the global increase in CO2 emissions in the last five years ...
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Benefits of Heat Pumps Detailed in New NREL Report
Millions of U.S. households would benefit from heat pumps, but the cost of installing the technology needs to come down to make their use a more attractive proposition, according to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The findings, detailed in the journal Joule, quantify the costs and benefits of air-source heat pumps across the United ...
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Clean Sources of Generation are Set to Cover World’s Additional Demand Over Next 3 Years
Global electricity demand is expected to grow at a faster rate over the next three years as the clean energy transition gathers speed, with all the additional demand forecast to be covered by technologies that produce low-emissions electricity, according to a new report from the IEA. Electricity 2024 is the latest edition of the IEA’s annual analysis of electricity market developments and ...
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Geothermal panel startup closes CHF1.3 million seed financing round
Enerdrape, a startup based in Vaud, Switzerland pioneering pre-fabricated geothermal panel technology, has just concluded a CHF 1.3 million (approx. UD 1.5 million) seed financing round. Swiss investors, including Après-demain through the initiative GeneRActions Planet and Romande Energie led the seed round, aligning themselves with enerdrape’s vision for a sustainable future. ...
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19 Dec, 2023 $800m Investment to Accelerate Octopus Energy’s Global Clean Energy Growth
Octopus Energy Group, the UK’s largest power supplier* and the owner of the Kraken technology platform, recently announced $800m (£625m) additional investment from its existing shareholders. This new investment values the private company at $7.8bn (£6.2bn), a 60% increase since its previous investment round in December 2021. Australian and Japanese giants Origin Energy and Tokyo Gas, one of the ...
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The Energy World is Set to Change Significantly by 2030, Based on Today's Policy Settings Alone
Major shifts underway today are set to result in a considerably different global energy system by the end of this decade, according to the IEA's new World Energy Outlook 2023. The phenomenal rise of clean energy technologies such as solar, wind, electric cars and heat pumps is reshaping how we power everything from factories and vehicles to home appliances and heating systems. The latest edition ...
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Millionth Renewable Energy Plant Connected to E.ON Grid
E.ON, Germany's largest distribution system operator, recently connected the millionth renewable energy plant to its distribution system and celebrated an energy transition anniversary. The commissioned wind turbine is located in the municipality of Biesenthal in Brandenburg and will in future feed 6.8 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity into the grid of E.ON subsidiary E.DIS. E.ON's Chief ...
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National Grid Submits “Future Grid” Plan to Massachusetts Regulators
National Grid submitted its Electric Sector Modernization Plan (ESMP), the Future Grid Plan, to the Grid Modernization Advisory Council (GMAC) this week, outlining the critical investments needed in the local electric distribution system over the next five years and beyond to meet the Commonwealth’s nation-leading climate change, clean energy, and equity goals as established in the 2050 ...
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All-Electric Building Draws Energy From 500 Feet Below the Surface of the Earth
The key to heating an 834-unit apartment tower under construction on the Brooklyn waterfront will be a hole in the ground. Actually, it will be 322 holes, each about 4 inches (10 centimeters) across and exactly 499 feet (152 meters) deep any deeper and New York state would consider it a mining project. These holes comprise the heart of a geothermal heat-pump system that is expected to reduce ...
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Study: Inflation Reduction Act Influencing Clean Energy Behavior, But Most Americans Don't Know
With grid energy costs increasing steadily, American consumers are making sacrifices to pay their energy bills and becoming more energy-conscious according to independent research commissioned by SunPower. In the second iteration of its Energy Switch Index, the company surveyed more than 2,000 Americans to better understand consumers' energy preferences and the impact the Inflation Reduction Act ...
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56 Homes Now Fully Electric Through ComEd Low Income Whole Home Electrification Program
ComEd this week (June 26) announced a new milestone achieved in a program to advance the electrification of low-income homes across northern Illinois. To date, 56 single family homes have been retrofitted as part of ComEd's Whole Home Electrification program, a first-of-its-kind initiative designed to convert single family and multi-unit homes to energy-saving, all-electric heating and cooling ...
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Clean Energy Investment Extends Its Lead over Fossil Fuels, Boosted by Energy Security Strength
About USD 2.8 trillion is set to be invested globally in energy in 2023, of which more than USD 1.7 trillion is expected to go to clean technologies – including renewables, electric vehicles, nuclear power, grids, storage, low-emissions fuels, efficiency improvements and heat pumps – according to the IEA’s latest World Energy Investment report. The remainder, slightly more than USD 1 trillion, is ...
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Vermont's First Fully Storm Resilient, All-Electric Neighborhood Launched
Construction is now underway for Vermont's first all-electric, fully storm resilient neighborhood. U.S. Senator Peter Welch joined Governor Phil Scott and the President and CEO of O'Brien Brothers, and the President and CEO of Green Mountain Power (GMP) for a groundbreaking celebration for Hillside East in South Burlington, Vermont. The neighborhood and homes are designed with climate and storm ...
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Bramble energy secures £12 million funding to provide first-of-its-kind fuel cell technology to hydrogen bus project
Bramble Energy, an innovator in fuel cell technology, has joined forces with Equipmake, Aeristech and the University of Bath to develop a revolutionary new hydrogen double-deck bus integrating Bramble’s revolutionary, low-cost printed circuit board fuel cell (PCBFC) technology. Bramble Energy is the lead partner of the Hydrogen Electric Integrated Drivetrain Initiative (HEIDI) which has ...
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California's Clean Energy Research and Development Program Delivers 10x Return on Investment
A new report shows how California's premier public interest clean energy research and development program continues to add to its decade-long track record of advancing technologies to address the climate challenge while attracting new investment and creating jobs. Since its creation in 2012, the California Energy Commission's (CEC) Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) has invested $1.1 ...
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Biden Administration Announces $250 Million to Accelerate Electric Heat Pump Manufacturing
As part of President Biden's Investing in America the U.S. Department of Energy recently (April 18) announced a $250 million funding opportunity to accelerate electric heat pump manufacturing in America. This is the first funding opportunity announcement stemming from DOE's new authorization, invoked by President Biden last summer, to utilize the Defense Production Act (DPA) to increase domestic ...
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Swissgrid Completes Pilot Project to Integrate Decentralized Energy Resources
Swissgrid and ewz successfully completed a pilot project on coordination between transmission and distribution system operators in collaboration with Equigy. In December 2022, Swissgrid and ewz successfully completed a pilot project on the coordination between a transmission system operator and distribution system operators regarding the use of distributed energy resources such as batteries, heat ...
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IEA Publishes Annual Energy Outlook 2023
U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions will drop 25% to 38% below what they were in 2005 by 2030, according to projections from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2023 (AEO2023). By the end of the projection period, 2050, U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions are 17% lower in this year's Reference case compared with last year, after EIA accounted for the effects of ...
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Europe's Six Most Innovative Geothermal Projects of 2022
In March 2023 the European Geothermal Energy Council (EGEC) will announce the final winner among the six endorsed nominations for the Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award 2023. The six finalists are (in alphabetical order by company): BRGM (France), with the project INHIBIOSOURCExpert.The safe use of low enthalpy geothermal installations in the Dogger Aquifer of the Paris Basin ...
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