Industrial heat pumps
More than 60% of industry’s energy use goes on heat.
Industrial heat pumps can help decarbonise low temperature heat supply within industries by using renewable energy and waste heat recovery.
With today’s technology, industrial heat pumps can provide about 10% of total final energy demand of industry – around 2,000 TWh.
Industrial heat pumps use renewable energy from air, water, sewage and ground, exhaust air from buildings (hospitals, hotels, offices) or waste heat from processes and infrastructure.
They provide temperatures of up to 180-200°C, replacing oil and gas!
They are already being used in industries like paper and pulp, wood, dairy, fruits, vegetables, paint, food, textiles.
The European Heat Pump Association supports the widespread roll-out of industrial heat pumps.
You can:
- read our heat pump stories, which feature many such case studies;
- read our latest report on the subsidies available for industrial heat pumps in each European country;
- find out about our industrial heat pump conference in November 2024.
- discover our partnership with the paper and pulp industry body Cepi, and the report we produced together.
- read about how we showed the potential of industrial heat pumps at the Anuga Foodtec conference in 2024.