Our bottom-up modelling, using Germany as an example, shows technical pathways on how installing heat pumps is one of the fastest ways to reduce gas consumption, in addition to reducing the load hours of gas-fired power plants. With targeted efforts, maximally 60% of gas from the Russian ...
To decarbonise home heating and hot water, the UK's recentenergy security billpromotedheat pumpsas a replacement for gas boilers. Most countries in Europe and North America have done the same. Heat pumps work like a refrigerator in reverse, pushing heat into rather than out of a space. The...
According to his calculations, for every 1TWh of renewable electricity used to produce heat — either via electric heat pumps (curtailed 5-15% of the time) or green hydrogen-fired boilers —“you get vastly more heating done with your terawatt-hour” with the former. Green hydrogen would onl...