Heat pump technologies are now recognised as critical to getting off fossil fuels, fighting climate change and boosting energy security, and the sector is looking at record growth.  

It is crucial that the right conditions are assured by policy-makers to enable European heat pump manufacturing and deployment to stay ahead in the global competition game, speed up even more, and deliver on the EU’s climate and energy goals, attendees will hear.  

European Commission Director-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, Kerstin Jorna, will address these points in her keynote speech: 
“The European heat pump industry is a well-established market leader on the global stage.  It plays an essential role in decarbonising heating for households and other end-users. Together, we must strengthen the industry’s position and make sure that consumers benefit from energy savings and reduce their use of fossil gas in buildings.  We need to further encourage innovation, facilitate access to adequate skills, from building to installing heat pumps; the single market framework must support this.” 

Forum attendees, who range from policy-makers, researchers and utility representatives to engineers and manufacturers, will discuss the path to the EU’s REPowerEU targets, which would see 60 million more heat pumps connected in the EU by 2030.  

They will be invited by the European Heat Pump Association, the Forum organisers, to co-create an EU heat pump ‘accelerator’ - a multi-stakeholder action agenda to speed up heat pump manufacturing and deployment for residential, commercial, and industrial applications. The accelerator should focus on five areas: policy certainty, affordability, market conditions, skills and training, and R&D.  

Heat pump technologies are now recognised as critical to getting off fossil fuels, fighting climate change and boosting energy security, and the sector is looking at record growth.  

It is crucial that the right conditions are assured by policy-makers to enable European heat pump manufacturing and deployment to stay ahead in the global competition game, speed up even more, and deliver on the EU’s climate and energy goals, attendees will hear.  

European Commission Director-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, Kerstin Jorna, will address these points in her keynote speech: 
“The European heat pump industry is a well-established market leader on the global stage.  It plays an essential role in decarbonising heating for households and other end-users. Together, we must strengthen the industry’s position and make sure that consumers benefit from energy savings and reduce their use of fossil gas in buildings.  We need to further encourage innovation, facilitate access to adequate skills, from building to installing heat pumps; the single market framework must support this.” 

Forum attendees, who range from policy-makers, researchers and utility representatives to engineers and manufacturers, will discuss the path to the EU’s REPowerEU targets, which would see 60 million more heat pumps connected in the EU by 2030.  

They will be invited by the European Heat Pump Association, the Forum organisers, to co-create an EU heat pump ‘accelerator’ - a multi-stakeholder action agenda to speed up heat pump manufacturing and deployment for residential, commercial, and industrial applications. The accelerator should focus on five areas: policy certainty, affordability, market conditions, skills and training, and R&D.