This year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on its official website that the EU sanctions would reduce the group’s natural gas imports from Russia by more than one third, IEA has given 10 suggestions aimed at enhancing the flexibility of the EU natural gas network and minimizing the difficulties that vulnerable consumers may encounter. It is mentioned that the process of replacing gas-fired boilers with heat pumps should be accelerated.
Ireland has announced an 8billion Euro plan, which will almost double the grant value of the heat pump project. It hopes to install 400000 household heat pumps by 2030.
The Dutch government has announced plans to ban the use of fossil fuel boilers from 2026, and make hybrid heat pumps the standard for household heating. The Dutch cabinet has pledged to invest 150million euros per year by 2030 to support homeowners to purchase heat pumps.
In 2020, Norway granted subsidies to more than 2300 families through the Enova program, and focused on the high-temperature heat pump market used in the area of district heating.
In 2020, the British government announced the “ten point plan for Green Industrial Revolution”, which mentioned that the UK would invest 1billion pounds (about 8.7 billion yuan) in residential and public buildings to make new and old residential and public buildings more energy-efficient and comfortable; Making public sector buildings more environmentally friendly; Cut hospital and school expenses. In order to make houses, schools and hospitals more green and clean, it is proposed to install 600000 heat pumps every year from 2028.
In 2019, Germany proposed to achieve climate neutrality in 2050 and advance this goal to 2045 in may2021. The Agora energy transformation forum and other authoritative think tanks in Germany estimated in the Research Report “Germany climate neutralization 2045″ that if the goal of carbon neutralization in Germany is advanced to 2045, the number of heat pumps installed in the heating field in Germany will reach at least 14million.
Post time: May-30-2022