Despite significant progress in making electricity cleaner and more efficient, its share of final energy consumption has grown by less than 3% over the past two decades.
This slow uptake is consistent across sectors and countries, underscoring the need for coordinated, strategic action to fully realise electrification as a cornerstone of a sustainable European energy system.
Heat pumps are a key technology to accelerate this transition, as they reduce energy demand, enable direct electrification, and make use of renewable and waste heat across residential, commercial, and industrial applications.
Moreover, heat pumps play a crucial role in enhancing Europe’s energy security. If 7% of European homes (around 14 million altogether) changed their fossil fuel boiler for a heat pump, it would cut 13 billion cubic metres of gas, which is equivalent to the amount the EU imports for home and water heating from Russia.
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