Heat Pump Forum 2016

Programme | 18-19-20 May 2016

18th May 2016 Committee meetings (for members only)

09-12:30 ICHP meeting, La Défense, Agenda

09-12:30 National associations meeting, Uniclima

18 May 2016 | EHPA General Assembly & Networking event

Time table:

14:00 General Assembly (members only)

17:00 End of General Assembly

18:00 Networking event, welcome drink on Bateau Excellence

18:30 Heat Pump City of the Year Award Ceremony

19:00 Boat Tour

19 May 2016 | Heat Pump Forum 2016 Programme

08:30 Coffee & registration 

09:30 Welcome

Moderator: Christian Oliver, Financial Times

- Martin Forsén, President of EHPA, European Heat Pump Association

09:40  Are we ambitious enough to fullfil the pledges of the COP21 agreement?

Interventions:

• COP21 - from ambition to action for the heating and cooling sector (the French Perspective)
  Ségolène Royal, Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy (tbc)
• The Heating & Cooling Strategy as a tool to speed up the decarbonisation of the heating & cooling sector
  Marie Donnelly, Director for new and renewable sources of energy, energy efficiency and innovation, DG Energy, European Commission
• Technologies for the energy transition
  Jean-François Gagné, Head of IEA Energy Technology Policy division
• The necessary ambition level from a science perspective, 
  Kornelis Blok, Director of Science, Ecofys

Interventions followed by a discussion between panelists and audience. 

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 New business models for low emission heating

Moderation: Lukas Bergmann, Delta EE

Panelists: 

• Peter Jocic, NIBE
• Energy services and Big Data for new revenue streams, Frédéric Gastaldo, CEO, Swisscom Energy Solutions
• New business model - Fast-track heat pump roll out, Nicolai Kipp, Chief Consultant, Insero

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Energy efficiency and renewables: how to tackle the existing building challenge! 

Moderation: Prof. Ir. Wim Boydens, Boydens Engineering 

• A model for a future city
  Chantal Degand, Electricité de France (EdF), France
• Quick fix for greening cities: Refurbishing existing DHC networks
  Thomas Capral Henriksen, Chief Consultant, Danish Energy Association
• Near zero energy renovation in the building stock
  Pieter van Alphen, Tecneco B.V, The Netherlands
• Sewer water as energy source for heating
  Marc Feyten, Blue heat, Belgium
• Environmental and economic advantages of Nearly Zero-Energy Building Renovation
  Dr. Riikka Holopainen, NeZeR-project coordinator, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Finland

15:15 Coffee break

16:00 A bucket full of policy: What has pushed markets?

Panelists:  

• The European perspective, 
  Thomas Nowak, EHPA
• The biggest European market: France 
  Thierry Nille, AFPAC
• Innovative subsidies for heat pumps: The Netherlands
  Peter Wagener, DHPA

Short interventions, followed by a discussion on building blocks of successful HP policy (the industry perspective). 

17:00 Conclusions & End

20 May 2016 | Technical workshop

08.30 Welcome coffee and registration

09.00 Industry roundtable on Large Heat Pumps

Moderator: Rod Janssen, Chairman of Energy Efficiency in Industrial Processes platform (EEIP)

Interventions by the heat pump industry:

• Kenneth Hoffmann, GEA
• Mr. Pal Kiss, Thermowatt
• Mr. Dave Pearson, Star Renewables

09.30 Charting the waters - energy challenges of the agricultural raw materials
Ralph Priesner, Assistant of the board, Agrana Starch

09.45 Charting the waters - energy challenges of the refrigeration and climatisation sector
Mr. Pierre-Alain Giroud, CEO from company Zero-C

10.00 Charting the waters - energy challenges of the dairy industry
Richard Laxton, Arla Milk

10.15 Roundtable discussion

11.00  Coffee Break

Session on Natural Refrigerants

Moderator: Andreas Zottl, Engineer, Austrian Institute of Technology

11.30 The market of refrigerants: an overview
Alvaro de Ona, Chief Operating officer and Head of media, Shecco

11.45 Manufacturing heat pumps under a phase down scenarion - a manufacturers' perspecitve
Dr. Joachim Maul, Alpha-Innotec

12.00 Challenges of compressor design
Pierre Ginies, Danfoss Compressors

12.15 Better performance from new refrigerants?
 Dr. Marek Miara, Fraunhofer ISE

12.30 Discussion with the Audience

13.00  Lunch

14.00 New air-water HP for the building stock: the GreenHP Project
Andreas Zottl, AIT

14.05 GreenHP System design and results
Andreas Zottl, AIT

14.20 GreenHP System integration and simulation results
Hatef Madani, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

14.35 GreenHP Energy Management System
David Fischer, ISE Fraunhofer

14.50 Discussion

15.20 End of the meeting