Links

 

EU and European project links

 

http://ec.europa.eu/energy/intelligent/index_en.html

Intelligent Energy – Europe Programme

 

http://eucert.fiz-karlsruhe.de/

THe EU-cert HP project website, lot of useful information. The project is however closed, and run by EHPA.

 

http://groundreach.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/

The GROUND-REACH project targets at evaluating the importance of ground source heat pumps in reaching the Kyoto targets and launching a short term European information and promotion campaign for rapid market penetration of this sustainable technology for heating and cooling of buildings

 

http://www.groundhit.eu/

The project GROUNDHIT aims at improving cost-effectiveness, competitiveness and market penetration of ground coupled heat pumps.

 

http://www.earth-net.info/

The Extend Accredited Renewables Training for Heating (EARTH) project was designed to bring quality training infrastructure and outcomes for three specific renewable energy technologies for heat production.

 

http://eucert.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/

European project dealing with Training (Implementation of a European Training Programme for heat pump installers and the required infrastructure), Certification  (Implementation of a European Certification Programme for heat pump installers) and Dissemination (Trademark "Certified Heat Pump Installer")

 

Geothermal energy on the EC Directorate-General for Energy and Transport Website

 

http://wp-effizienz.ise.fraunhofer.de/german/index/messdaten.html

Heat pump field measurement project in Germany. This project includes field measurements from more than 100 real installations!

 

DG Energy &Transport

 

EC ManagEnergy Initiative

 

Geothermal energy on the ManagEnergy Website

 

European organisations

 

European Heat Pump Association (EHPA)

 

European Geothermal Energy Council - EGEC

 

EREC - European Renewable Energy Council

 

EUFORES - European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources

 

Austrian Training and Certification Programme for Heat Pump Installers

 

Eco label criteria for heat pumps

 

 

International Organisations

IEA Heat Pump Centre
IEA HP Annex 29
IEA HP Annex 29, norwegian site
GHC, GEO-HEAT CENTER

WIRE - The World-wide Information System for Renewable Energy

GHPC, Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium 

Geothermal Energy Association 

International Ground Source Heat Pump Association (IGSHPA)

Canadian GeoExchange Coalition (CGC) 
BG specific links
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DE specific links
Geothermieportal 
German Heat Pump Association (BWP)

FR specific links
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SE specific links
Swedish heat pump assiciation (SVEP)
Swedish energy administration
UK specific links

UK Ground Source Heat Pump Association
 

UK Heat Pump Association

 

GSHP scotland

Completingtheloop.org.uk

http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/

http://www.carbontrust.co.uk/energy/
 

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/09144516/0
 

http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/sources/sustainable/microgeneration/strategy/page27594.html


Other links

Journals of geothermal interest