Heat pumps: how residents of Sweden and Norway heat homes

In recent years, the use of heat pumps for heating residential buildings and office buildings has been actively developing in Europe. Despite the fact that the installation of such equipment requires significant financial costs, the technology itself is actively subsidized by the governments of many countries, and the number of buildings using such alternative energy is growing every year.

The principle of operation of such pumps is based on the fact that the temperature of the earth's crust at a certain depth is constant and not subject to fluctuations throughout the year. It turns out that in winter the underground temperature is warmer than the air surrounding the building, and this is used when heating the building, and in the summer it is colder than the surrounding air, which is used for cooling. In addition to the heat of the bowels, the water temperature of nearby water bodies can be used to heat buildings.

Today, Sweden is a world leader in the use of heat pumps, and the vast majority of buildings in Stockholm are heated using marine heat pumps. In addition, many settlements located on the Baltic Sea coast also use this technology to heat buildings. The neighboring Scandinavian countries - Norway and Sweden are actively introducing this technology.

Germany is another country where the technology of heating buildings using heat pumps is actively implemented by the state and significant subsidies are allocated for this.