November 2021. EHPA Secretary General, Thomas Nowak will drive from Düsseldorf to Glasgow from 2 to 11 November, visiting heat pump manufacturers and installations, showing that heat pumps are everywhere on the way. From new and renovated buildings to industries and electric vehicles.
The UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November 2021. EHPA Secretary General, Thomas Nowak will drive from Düsseldorf to Glasgow from 2 to 11 November, visiting heat pump manufacturers and installations, showing that heat pumps are everywhere on the way. From new and renovated buildings to industries and electric vehicles.
Why are heat pumps important to COP26?
With Climate change affecting our everyday lives, we expect the world leaders at COP26 to present ambitious CO2 emission reduction targets and concrete delivery pathways to achieve them. Targets and implementation action must include the heating and cooling sector building on the massive deployment of heat pump solutions. This technology enables the efficient and low carbon electrification of heating and cooling within the next decade. Emissions will continue to decline in line with ever-greener electricity generation. The technology is available for nearly all application areas (residential, commercial, industrial sectors) and is reliable and mature.
A successful COP26 will include heating & cooling – based on heat pump solutions – in its concluding statements and will set the scene for national legislation and a market framework that triggers end-user demand and leads to quick deployment of the technology.
Hence, we are going to the COP26 on a road trip from 2 to 11 November, visiting heat pump sites on the way, and showing that heat pumps contribute to a greener planet.
Click on the blue button below to send us an e-mail on how you want to contribute to the heat pump tour – especially if you want to get involved! You can always mail or call us directly at eirini.litina@ehpa.org / +32 493525781.
The road trip
Germany
28.10.2021 – Visit the city of Aachen / meet with Emerson climate technologies
2.11.2021 – Visit the city of Dormagen / meet with Vaillant
Belgium
28.10.2021 Welkenraed, Belgium ( Emerson climate technologies )
5.11.2021 – Visit the city of Londerzeel / meet with Stiebel Eltron
The Netherlands
5.11.2021 – Visit PJ Haelen / meet with Geelen Counterflow electric dryers with heat pumps for food and pet food production, BREEAM office building the CEO put words to action on products and production site.
UK
8.11.2021 – Stop in London –
- Visit Dimplex Flame Studio, meet with Glen Dimplex (Multi-family building and highrise renovation with heat pumps).
- Visit Bunhill 2 Energy Centre in Islington, meet GEA Heating & Refrigeration Technologies (GEA: using a large air-water heat pumps to make the waste heat from the London tube useful for a district energy system).
- Visit Octopus HP training center in east London (Octopus: tackling installer eduction for the mass roll-out of heat pumps).
9.11.2021 – Visit the city of Bath / Meet with Ecoforest (Renovation of the Bath cathedral with heat pumps. Important for heritage buildings)
9.11.2021 – Visit the city of Cardiff: Planing for no emission: fully electric buildings with PV, Battery, charging stations, heat pumps / Meet with Sero Homes.
10.11.2021 – Stop in Preston: Together housing – renovation of multiple high rises with heat pumps and a shared ground loop / visit the Heat pump city of the year award winner
11.11.2021 – Tour at the COP26 in Glasgow
12.11.2021 – Glasgow / visit a 2MegaWatt Heat Pump / Heating Hub at the Queens Quay: large heat pumps for district heating and interviews with stakeholders from Trane, Gea, Emerson and star renewables.
13.11.2021 – Dundee energy center: how to make decisions easy for the public.
14.11.2021 – End of trip
Let’s make this planet a cooler planet together.
For further information, please contact us directly at eirini.litina@ehpa.org