The new website for the European IEEA project Proheatpump has recently been launched, with some initial results also available. ProHeatPump is an Intelligent Energy Europe project, with the main objective of promoting information and success stories about ground source heat pumps.

The overall goal of the ProHeatPump project is to contribute to the reduction in the use of fossil fuels for heating purposes. Key objective of the project is to promote energy efficient heat pumps for heating. According to the organization’s press release, the project focuses on systems for the residential sector and SMEs, i.e. small to medium size heat pumps and in particular on refurbishment where the needs for promotion is higher then for new buildings.

Expected results of the project are to increase the number of heat pump installations during the project time on selected target areas, to create suitable and practical information material for each target group (installers, end users and policy makers) on the possibilities and the advantages of heating by the means of heat pumps and to improve marketing strategies to promote heat pumps in European countries with low market penetration but high potential for heat pumps.