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近日，北京城市副中心的绿心公园通过了国内外两项碳中和认证，成为北京市首个“全域零碳公园”。其中，园区的供热系统采用分布式光伏+地源热泵+水储热模式，将绿电利用到极致。储热作为热泵的“好搭档”，在各地低碳、零碳园区也相继涌现。 View Summary +

2025年是中国“十四五”规划的收官之年，也是“十五五”规划谋篇布局的关键一年，中国将在这一年继续制定落实《巴黎协定》承诺的措施，并明确下一个“五年规划”的核心方向。在实现碳达峰、碳中和目标的过程中，建筑用能结构的转型已成为不可忽视的重要环节。 View Summary +

2025年4月，国家发展改革委联合工业和信息化部、生态环境部、住房城乡建设部、交通运输部、国家能源局等部门发布了《推动热泵行业高质量发展行动方案》(发改环资〔2025〕313号)（以下简称《行动方案》）。《行动方案》提出，力争到2030年，热泵生产制造和技术研发能力不断增强，热泵建筑应用面积和热泵机组装机容量持续增长。 View Summary +

Europe has been paving the way to greater residential demand flexibility since 2018, and according to RAP’s recent survey, residential smart tariff offerings have increased by 250% since the energy crisis hit in 2022. Let’s look at how European… View Summary +

This week, China’s central government issued a national ‘Action Plan’ to promote heat pumps. The policy offers substantial support for heat pumps but leaves critical questions unanswered—particularly regarding the future of certain types of fossil fuel… View Summary +

Despite uncertainty regarding the disbursement of Inflation Reduction Act funds, do states continue to support efficient electrification through heat pump adoption? RAP and CLASP’s webinar series, “Federal Dollars, State Policies and Heat Pumps: The Future of Heat,” has been considering… View Summary +

As Inflation Reduction Act funds get disbursed, are states making the most of their policies and programs to deliver efficient electrification through heat pump adoption? As RAP and CLASP’s webinar series on “Federal Dollars, State Policies and Heat Pumps:… View Summary +

In Part 1 of this blog series, we discussed  our recently published model rule on emissions standards for space and water heaters. In the course of preparing the rule, we considered an important question: Are heat pumps cost-effective compared… View Summary +

Emissions standards remain a critical policy option that states can use to improve air quality and achieve climate goals, and since many larger sources of air pollution have been reduced significantly, regulating building emissions makes sense as a next step toward… View Summary +

Can states team up to better understand the benefits and challenges that efficient electrification through heat pump adoption can produce for their citizens and economies? Earlier this fall in the first in a series of webinars, Federal Dollars, State… View Summary +