Cooling is essential to protect human health. Heat pumps can provide heating and cooling simultaneously, while recovering and reusing the heat generated during cooling.
The EHPA article explains why cooling should become a central focus of European energy policy. Combining heating and cooling in one system supports adaptation to extreme heat, decarbonisation and energy system flexibility.
EHPA proposes supporting heat pumps with both operating modes as a standard solution, including them in funding and certification schemes, and systematically recovering waste heat from cooling for useful applications.
