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Heat pumps can cut global CO2 emissions by nearly 6%

157 million tons of CO2 are saved per year through the 130 million heat pumps installed in residential buildings. If used to their full potential, heat pumps could be used to save 50% of the building sector’s CO2 emissions, and 5% of the industrial sector’s. This would amount to 1.2 billion tons of CO2 per year, corresponding to about 6% of total global CO2 emissions1.
Heat pumps use electrical energy to reverse the natural flow of environmental heat from cold to hot or from hot to cold in a clearly advantageous relation. Heat pumps have a relatively low carbon dioxide output: less than a half of the CO2 output produced by electric, fuel or gas residential appliances. Ancient heat pumps used ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's), but current equipments use HCFC liquids, with a much lower ozone-depleting effect, or refrigerants with no ozone-depleting effect.   

Consuming up to 75% less energy
Danfoss offers a wide range of air/water and ground/water heat pumps dedicated to domestic, residential and commercial market. They typically consume up to 75% less energy compared to traditional heating sources. In our design and production process we always focus on: best possible heat pump energy efficiency (high SPF – seasonal performance factor) and lowest environmental impact in production process (all heat pump factories are ISO 14001 certified)  


Did you know?  
Replacing a traditional gas or oil boiler with an air or ground source heat pump you can save 1500-2000 kg carbon dioxide (CO2) a year – it is equivalent to driving in a car 13.000-15.000 km

Source: 1) Heat Pump Programme (2008/2010)