Lovins: Commercial Boilers Reduce Heat Pump Installation Bottlenecks Over Single-Family Retrofits
Amory Lovins · The ‘profound change’ from today’s energy crisis · Apr 13, 2022 · at 21:21
Energy analyst Amory Lovins discusses how to efficiently accelerate European heating decarbonization amid skilled labor shortages.
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“You will also relieve the installation bottlenecks not having enough skilled installers to put a bunch of heat pumps in quickly if you focus first on apartment houses, commercial buildings, the things that have big furnaces and boilers burning a lot of Russian gas, but a much smaller installation burden with, you know, one big unit instead of zillions of little ones in individual houses.”
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