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Make the most of heat pumps’ efficiency and flexibility

Tap heat pumps’ efficiency and flexibility

Heat pumps can recover waste heat or heat from inside a building.

They also connect many networks: electricity, heating and cooling, industry and district energy. This reduces primary energy demand and lowers the impact on the electricity grid.

Heat pumps can be turned on and off in response to market or grid signals.

All of this reduces grid investments, optimises renewable energy use, and improves the economics of heat pumps for industry, businesses, and households.

What should EU policymakers do?

Recognise heat pump flexibility and waste heat recovery as strategic pillars of Europe’s energy security
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Integrate heat pumps’ flexibility potential into energy system planning, and remove regulatory, planning, and financial barriers
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Ensure heat pump owners have dynamic energy contracts to benefit from demand-side flexibility and reduce their energy bills
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Ensure flexible grid planning and fast grid connections for ready-to-deploy industrial projects to support electrification
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EU Projects

EHPA’s work on flexibility, grids, and energy system integration is further supported by the EU-funded projects:

Policy news

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Publications, position papers
and joint statements:

Manifesto: how to speed up heat pump rollout

In a world of geopolitical turmoil, fossil energy prices are spiking more than ever. Heat pumps replace fossil...

22 May 2026
Joint letter: energy security and affordability in a new geopolitical era

Europe faces an increasingly volatile geopolitical landscape. Russia’s war against Ukraine and rising tensions...

13 May 2026
Joint letter: accelerating flexible electrification demand in the EU

The electrification of buildings, transport and industry requires an energy system that is not only clean, but...

12 May 2026

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