heat pump technology News
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Ener-G adds heat pump division to the firm
Energy solution provider Ener-G has launched a sustainable technologies division specialising in designing, installing and maintaining heat pumps. It expands on Ener-G’s existing ground source heat pump operation, allowing the firm to provide heat pump solutions for all types of heating and cooling applications ranging from 1KW to 1,000KW. Managing director Paul Burley said: “Our in-house ...
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DOE Announces Breakthrough in Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Technology
The U.S. Department of Energy recently (June 17) announced that American heat pump manufacturer Lennox International became the first partner in DOE's Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Technology Challenge to develop a next-generation electric heat pump that can more effectively heat homes in northern climates relative to today's models. Cold climate heat pumps (CCHPs) can provide ...
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GeoSpring™ Named to BuildingGreen’s Top-10 List for 2013, Acknowledged for Energy-Saving Capabilities
GE Appliances’ new products, as part of its billion-dollar investment through 2014, continue to gain positive recognition. Today, BuildingGreen named GE’s GeoSpring™ hybrid electric water heater to its Top-10 list of green building products for 2013. GE began production of GeoSpring in February. Today, BuildingGreen named GE's GeoSpring(TM) hybrid electric water heater to its ...
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CPUC Issues Research Study on Heat Pump Market
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has released a study of the State's heat pump market to track the progress of programs and measure their future market effects. Heat pump systems provide hot water, heating and cooling using energy from the electric grid, which is increasingly renewable. California has some of the most comprehensive and ambitious clean energy policies in the ...
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Carbon Trust confirms changes to the Energy Technology List
Changes to the Enhanced Capital Allowance (ECA) scheme for energy changing technologies have been announced as part of the UK Government’s Budget 2015, delivered by Chancellor George Osborne on Wednesday 18 March. Based upon evidence provided by the Carbon Trust and its partner Jacobs, the Government has stated that a number of technical and criteria changes will be made to the Energy ...
By Carbon Trust
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DOE Releases New Study Highlighting the Untapped Potential of Geothermal Energy in the United States
The U.S. Department of Energy released a groundbreaking analysis detailing how the United States can benefit from the vast potential of geothermal energy. The analysis culminated in a report, GeoVision: Harnessing the Heat Beneath Our Feet, which summarizes findings showing that geothermal electricity generation could increase more than 26-fold from today reaching 60 gigawatts (GW) of installed ...
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Centrica to Expand New Home Energy Management Offers
Centrica is to expand its smart home activity in a move that is expected to unlock the power of millions of customers' homes, driving down electricity bills through the development of new propositions that will also support the flexibility of the grid. The company is working to integrate solar, battery and heat pump technology into its customer offer and has estimated that the co-location of ...
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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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SHARC welcomes Scottish Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy to Clyde Gateway
SHARC Energy Systems welcomed Scotland’s Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy, Paul Wheelhouse MSP, to Clyde Gateway where it has been contracted to install a low carbon district heating system. Clyde Gateway was established in 2008 to carry out the regeneration of 840 hectares across the east end of Glasgow and South Lanarkshire. Working in partnership with Glasgow City Council, ...
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NY Governor Cuomo Announces $15 Million Available for Piloting Community Thermal Systems to Reduce Buildings
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo recently (Feb 4) announced that up to $15 million is available through a new program to pilot the use of community thermal systems to reduce buildings' greenhouse gas emissions. The new Community Heat Pump Systems Pilot Program will accept proposals to study, design and construct community thermal systems using heat pump technology, as well as produce a best practices ...
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RENEXPO® Poland – international business event for the RES industry
The sixth edition of the International Trade Fair for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency will take place on 19-21 October in Expocentre EXPO XXI in Warsaw. The fair organizer is REECO Poland and the event is held under the Honorary Patronage of the Ministry of Energy and the Marshal of the Masovian Voivodeship. New regulations on renewable energy sources, which came into force on July 1st in ...
By Reecon A/S
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SHARC innovative heating system to make a splash
A swimming pool is at the forefront of a renewable energy revolution which creates heat from waste water. In the first project to be delivered by a new joint venture between Scottish Water Horizons and East Midlands-based SHARC Energy Systems and one of the first of its kind in the UK, Campbeltown’s Aqualibrium leisure centre will be heated by the use of ground-breaking technology which ...
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GE Launches GeoSpring™ – Its Most Energy-Efficient, Hybrid Electric Water Heater
(NYSE: GE) — Nearly all Americans (96 percent) think improved appliance efficiency is important for personal financial reasons,[1] yet many homeowners don’t realize their water heater is the second single-biggest, energy-consuming appliance in their home, behind the HVAC system and that more energy-efficient options are available in the ...
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Cogeneration can slash carbon and costs
Cogeneration of electricity and heat is one of the most promising means of using existing technologies for sustainable ends, but it is also one of the most neglected and least understood. Cogeneration can dramatically increase energy efficiency, slash carbon emissions, and save money. Using cogeneration in combination with heat-pump technology and plug-in vehicles as part of a renewable electric ...
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GRC 2016 Annual Meeting Announced - Call for Papers Issued
The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) has issued a call for papers for the world’s biggest geothermal conference of the year taking place October 23-26, 2016, in Sacramento, California, USA at the Sacramento Convention Center. Themed “Geothermal Energy, Here and Now: Sustainable, Clean, Flexible” the 40th GRC Annual Meeting will reflect the world-wide availability of a ...
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SHARC Energy Systems UK and Scottish Water Horizons Launch JV to Support Green Energy Agenda
Vancouver – (March 20, 2018) – SHARC International Systems Inc. (CSE: SHRC) (FSE: IWIA) (OTCQB: INTWF) (“SHARC”), is pleased to announce that its SHARC subsidiary, IWWS (UK) LTD. (“SHARC UK”) has joined forces with Scottish Water Horizons (“SWH”), an executive non-departmental statutory corporation of the Scottish Government under the Water ...
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GRC 2017 Annual Meeting Announced - Call for Papers Issued
The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) has issued a call for papers for the world’s biggest geothermal conference of the year taking place October 1-4, 2017, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA at the Salt Palace Convention Center. Themed “Geothermal Energy - Power to do More” the 41st GRC Annual Meeting will reflect the world-wide availability of a clean, dependable renewable energy ...
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Efficiency Vermont and Sense Conduct Pilot Study of Advanced Home Energy Monitoring
Efficiency Vermont and Sense have launched a pilot program with more than 200 Vermont households to assess how an innovative smart home technology can inspire people to use less energy and make their homes more efficient.Sense offers a home energy and awareness monitor that, combined with Efficiency Vermont programs and services, can transform how customers understand their own energy use and ...
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EPA Adds Clothes Dryers to Energy Star Program, Increasing Energy Efficiency of New Appliances
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today the first-ever Energy Star label for clothes dryers. If all residential clothes dryers sold in the U.S. meet these new requirements, the utility cost savings will grow to more than $1.5 billion each year and more than 22 billion pounds of annual greenhouse gas emissions would be prevented. Informed by extensive input from ...
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Net Zero Review: UK Could Do More to Reap Economic Benefits of Green Growth
The UK's leadership on tackling climate change has delivered real change at home and led to a global transformation - but more should be done to reap the economic benefits that presents, Chris Skidmore says today. Mission Zero, his Net Zero Review, makes 129 recommendations covering areas including the greater role that business can be supported to play, making better use of infrastructure and ...
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