This pillar welcomes submissions that present innovations addressing core elements of the heat pump cycle:
- Refrigerants
- Alternative cycles (e.g., non-conventional technologies including thermo-electric and magneto-caloric heat pump systems)
- Innovative components (e.g. compressors, ventilators, heat exchangers, controllers and communication systems)
- Other innovations
This pillar focuses on the integration of heat pumps to drive decarbonisation in various sectors. This can include innovations related to advanced system design, system integration, optimisation and control, and novel applications of heat pumps or combinations with other clean-energy technologies (e.g., HPs with energy storage). Application areas include:
- High temperature heat pumps for industrial applications
- Adaptation of industrial processes for heat pumps
- Heat pumps in new applications in integrated energy infrastructure of the future
- Heat pumps in building renovations
- Heat pumps in high-density urban areas
- Heat pumps in thermal networks for heating and/or cooling
- Heat pumps in transportation applications
- Other applications
This pillar welcomes submissions that describe innovations and best practices in heat pump market development, roll out and successful financial mechanisms addressing decarbonisation:
- Policies and strategies for heat pump roll-out
- Market development in different regions
- Capacity building along the technology value chain
- Communication, education, and training for technology implementation
- Circularity in heat pump concepts
- Quality assurance for products and installations
- Digital services for value generation (e.g. AI based services)
- Interaction of heat pumps and electric grids (e.g. grid stabilisation, interoperability, flexibility)
- Heat pump projects embedded in overall decarbonisation strategies
- Successful multi-stakeholder projects (e.g. real estate, city administration, technology providers, investors, grid operators, end users)
- Other initiatives
This pillar addresses solutions for upcoming challenges responding to new and future oriented criteria such as circularity, sustainability, market design and robustness:
- Heat pumps affordable for all
- Heat pumps for flexibility
- New business models
- Other solutions