The European Heat Pump Association published its annual report covering its activities in 2023 on 10 April 20241. The report is available on the association's website, with a full-sized version offered as a PDF1.
The association framed the report around a series of questions about the year it had just completed1:
"What did the European Heat Pump Association get up to in 2023? What were the highlights, the challenges, the conversations, the hot topics, the thorny issues?"
The publication is dated 10 April 2024 on the association's news page1. Beyond the report's existence and the questions it poses, no figures, findings or conclusions from its contents have been reported1.
The European Heat Pump Association is an industry body for the heat pump sector. Its annual report covers the organisation's own activity, not the performance of the heat pump market or of individual products, and no market data has been published alongside it1.
Why it matters for households
Heat pumps are central to how a home can cut its reliance on imported gas and generate its own heat from electricity, so the direction taken by the sector's main European industry body is relevant to anyone weighing up a heat pump for their property.
This report is an account of an industry association's own year rather than a statement of new policy, standards or support. It does not set out grant rates, installation rules, product standards or prices, and none of those have been reported in connection with it1. Households looking for changes to incentives or to the rules covering installations will not find them here.
What the report does indicate is that the association presents itself as engaged in policy work and debate on the sector's behalf, which is the channel through which industry positions on heat pumps are formed and put to European institutions. For a household, the practical effect of that work would show up later, in the shape of regulation, funding or market conditions, none of which this publication announces1.
What happens next
No next steps, publication dates or follow-up documents have been reported1.