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Strategic Research and Innovation for Heat Pumps

Strategic Research and Innovation for Heat Pumps

10 May 2021

The report briefly presents a non-exhaustive list of the “topics” that can be included in the Strategic Research and Innovation agenda for heat pump technologies. Stopping or at least slowing down the destructive machine of climate change requires well-defined and far reaching research, innovation and implementation plans and missions and a bigger effort on removing the socio-techno-economic barriers in exploiting the huge potential of the existing sustainable and efficient solutions such as heat pumps. To have a future more sustainable, the report highlights the importance of finding synergies in different sectors and acting more strategically and beyond the competing “technology boxes.

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