Graphic: Policy recommendations to drive up heat pump deployment in China

Set a national action plan for heating decarbonisation, including detailed actions for heat pump deployment

Icon showing a grouping of buildings BUILDINGS

    Short-term

  • Strengthen energy efficiency standards
  • Revise and unify labels across heating devices and launch awareness campaigns
  • Strengthen upfront cost support for heat pumps

    Long-term

  • Integrate more stringent performance requirements in regulations for new buildings;to prepare for heat pump adoption
  • Support large-scale retrofit packages for existing buildings as part of a co-ordinated heat pump rollout
  • Phase out subsidies for fossil fuel-based heating to free up financing for cleaner, more efficient heating solutions

Icon showing a grouping of buildings INDUSTRY

    Short-term

  • Increase awareness and support selection of heat pump solutions
  • Promote heat pump research and demonstration projects
  • Provide support to overcome installation, operations and maintenance costs

    Long-term

  • Expand actions to drive waste energy recovery through heat pumps in light industries and district heating
  • Introduce heat pumps as a recommended technology choice for decarbonising heating in selected industries

Icon showing a grouping of buildings SUPPLY CHAINS

    Short-term

  • Establish clear criteria for the classification of clean heating
  • Set targets to increase sales and deployment of heat pumps
  • Promote heat pump rollout in line with expansion of renewable energy

    Long-term

  • Promote job opportunities and skills in manufacturing, installation, operations and maintenance
  • Enhance data oversight to better understand opportunities for heat decarbonisation
  • Consider strengthening standards for lifecycle emissions to inform energy efficiency improvements, including considerations around HFCs and the use of alternative refrigerants
  • Consider electricity system and demand flexibility implications in future electrification of heating and heat pump deployment