Quality of heat pump systems through high-quality training schedules

Abstract

During the last 20 years heat pump technology was slowly but constantly driven further. Better components, new refrigerants, experiences in designing systems, quality labels and training schedules, combined with national incentive policies and other changes in the framework conditions supported a stable market development, which is just now starting to grow significantly in some countries.
A crucial point in developing heat pump markets tumed out to be the quality of the planning and installing the heat pump systems to raise the confidence of the consumer. Therefore training courses where started in many countries, the Austrian Certified Heat Pump Installer is one very effective example. The next step could be a joint European vocational training and certification system to continue the positive market development of the heat pump technology. We received an official statement by the City of Vienna that our project “Renewable Energy Western Hungary” has been in the INTERREG III/A programme assessed positive. We are planning the development of geothermal energy during this programme.