Euractiv
Summary
On Wednesday (15 May), 15 EU countries published a joint working document calling on the European Commission to prioritise the decarbonisation of heating and cooling, to increase the EU’s energy independence and meet its climate targets.
The key actions the 15 countries asked the Commission to undertake include the publication of the long-awaited Heat Pump Action Plan and a revision of the 2016 EU Heating and Cooling Strategy, bringing it in line with the upcoming 2040 climate targets.
“The EU needs to develop a concrete plan to rapidly increase the use of the different renewable energy technologies (…) such as solar district heating plants, heat pumps (including heat pumps using ambient energy from wastewater and other sources) and especially large-scale industrial heat pumps that need to be integrated into district heating systems” states the document sent to the Commission.
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