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Nov. 29, 2010 -  On 9 November the European Commission opened competition for the world's biggest investment programme in green technologies, in a bid to gain a competitive advantage over the US and China on renewables and carbon capture and...
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Nov. 22, 2010 -  On 11 November the European Parliament approved a deal between the EU institutions to free up €146 million of unspent EU recovery funds to finance energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.
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Nov. 18, 2010 -  A study recently presented by the Internationl Geothermal Center, Bochum, Germany finds that by 2017, the number of ground-source heat pumps (GSHP) using geothermal and hydrothermal energy, sold annually in Germany will...
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Nov. 16, 2010 -  The German Heat Pump Association (BWP) and three more major organizations from the heating sector have published a joint position paper on the contribution that heat pumps can make to the load management of intelligent power...
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Nov. 10, 2010 -  A state-of-the-art meat processing and logistic centre has been unveiled in Switzerland. With ammonia heat pumps and refrigeration systems installed by SSP Kälteplaner it is the most environmental-friendly meat factory in this...
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Nov. 05, 2010 -  The Canadian GeoExchange Coalition (CGC), Canada’s national industry association for geothermal heat pump technology, announces the release of an extensive statistical report entitled "The State of the Canadian Geothermal Heat...
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Nov. 02, 2010 -  This publication of the German Energy Agency lists existing grant programmes for renewable heating technologies (wood energy, solar heating, heat pumps) of the EU-Member States in compact tabular form. It provides valuable...
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Oct. 27, 2010 -  Requests for real data on heat pump performance is increasing. The Belgian company thercon has now put the results of an online monitoring for 6 units online. Fraunhofer is currently providing anonymised data for 8 of its...
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Oct. 18, 2010 -  The GROUND-MED project consortium will present initial results on state-of-the-art heat pump research in a meeting in Brussels.  GROUND-MED focusses on achieving a measured seasonal performance (SPF) higher than...
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Oct. 13, 2010 -  From 27-28 September, ATMOsphere 2010 - the international workshop on natural refrigerants, gathered in Brussels 170 policy and industry experts in the field of natural refrigerants in order to elaborate ideas on HOW to bring...
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