This saves costs and secures the supply of energy at the same time: we become more energy independent. So we would need less energy and by consequence less would need to be imported. Heat pumps reduce the use of primary and final energy. The EU imports annually energy worth over 400 billion euro. This is a very moderate estimation based on the sales data in Europe, on which we applied a certain factor: man-hours needed to install the different types of heat pumps. They foster EU employment: 40 358 Europeans are full-time working in the heat pumps sector. In fact, the EU heat pump companies play a leadership role in the technology development (EHPA). The vast majority of the heat pumps installed in Europe are also manufactured in Europe. This means that 1.8 billion tonnes of CO2 per year could be saved by heat pumps. According to IEA, heat pumps could save 50 % of the building sector's CO2 emissions, and 5 % of the industrial sector's. If the electricity is generated by renewables (PV, wind, hydro), then the heat pump is 100 % renewable and CO2-neutral. About 75 % of the energy that is used is renewable, whereas 25 % of the energy is generated by other sources (in 99 % this is electricity).

Heat Pumps contribute to an annual reduction of 9,16 million tons CO2 emissions in the EU. Direct electric heating: 35 - 45 % efficiency.Conventional gas/oil boiler: 70 - 80 % efficiency.Condensing gas/oil boiler: 90 - 96 % efficiency.For each kW of electricity consumed, they generate about 4kW of thermal energy.Ĭomparison with other heating technologies: Heat Pump can demonstrate in the range of 120 % to 300 % efficiency. The 4 Main Characteristis of Heat Pumps 1. By moving rather than generating energy, they are environmentally friendly and extremely energy-efficient. In cooling mode, refrigerators operate to extract heat from inside and discharge it to the outside. In heating mode, heat pumps take stored solar heat from air, water, or ground and release it together with the input energy in the form of useable heat to the heating and hot water circuit.

Heat pumps always provide heating and cooling, thus giving the same device an additional economic advantage in cases where both services are needed. Heat pumps can play a considerable role in reaching those key objectives as they reduce final and primary energy demand, in particular demand of fossil sources, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and use renewable energy sources in form of latent energy from ground, water or air.

Increase the use of renewable energy sources by 20 %.

Reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 %.

The European 2020 package set binding targets to ensure that the EU will by 2020:

Carnot cycle heat pump heating a house