🚨NEW REPORT: 🚨

How do we crack the decarbonisation of heat challenge?

➡️Clean heat standards are an important part of the answer.

It is a novel mechanism similar to zero emission vehicle standards and renewable portfolio standards but for heat. 🧵

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Long-durational thermal storage is coming.

The world's largest thermal storage project is underway in Finland with a capacity of 90 GWh, enough to meet the heating demands of a medium-sized city for up to a year.

Vantaan Energia Vantaan kaupunki
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🚨Out today! 🚨

Duncan Gibb // @duncangibb.net on bsky digs deep into Slovakia's policies impacting #heatpump uptake. His analysis points towards crucial recommendations for policymakers to drive adoption.

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Here's what you'll find:

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1/ New data from EHPA reveals a very worrying trend that has been known to industry circles for some time. Heat pump sales in Europe declined in 2023 in a period in which we should be experiencing accelerating deployment to achieve our climate goals.

BREAKING: Heat pump sales in 14 European countries fell by around 5% overall in 2023 compared to 2022.

➡️ Why did this happen?
➡️ What is the outlook?
➡️ How can policy revert this trend?

A 🧵 with some thoughts.

ehpa.org/news-and-resou…

Heat pump sales in 14 countries fell 5% in 2023.

Nearly 3,000 jobs are impacted.

Yet the 🇪🇺 Heat Pump Action Plan - meant to boost the sector - is on hold.

European Commission please publish to support net zero industry & decarbonise heating & cooling!

bit.ly/49TrXRD

Do heat pumps work in the cold?

'Efficiency declines with falling temperatures, but they still perform well in colder climates.'

Hannah Ritchie just released an excellent article on this question using our recent analysis published in Joule.

sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/heat-pumps-c…

BREAKING: Largest German heating system installer thermondo stops installing gas boilers.

The last fossil fuel heating system has been sold in February 2024.

The company will instead focus on heat pumps, solar and other clean energy technologies.

fr.de/wirtschaft/erf…

Fresh and concerning heating data out of Germany.

Although a record number of heat pumps were sold, the same was true for gas AND oil boilers.

bdh-industrie.de/presse/pressem…

Someone who apparently cannot distinguish between final energy and electricity and doesn’t know much about EU energy policy should perhaps not comment on EU energy policy.

2023 was a really important year for the energy transition.

Solar and wind capacity additions last year, are the equivalent to ~900 TWh/yr moving forward

That's a very large increase

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Later this year we will be refreshing our heat pump policy toolkit. It has been generally well received but there is always room for improvement so please let me know if you have comments or would like to be involved with the update.

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NEW RESEARCH: How do heat pumps in off gas grid homes affect fuel poverty & network costs in Great Britain?

➡️ They reduce fuel poverty in almost all regions.

➡️There are many areas with high consumer benefits + low network costs.

Full paper 👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

C'est désormais l'Union Française de l'Electricité qui alerte sur l'incohérence totale entre la fiscalité des énergies et notre politique climatique

Il serait temps de repenser les biens fondés de cette fiscalité pour envoyer les bons signaux climatiques

A lire ici :

observatoire-electricite.fr/politique-ener…