Member Country Report 2022

Thomas Fleckl, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Sabine Mitter, Federal Ministry Republic of Austria, Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility,Innovation and Technology

The HPT TCP is part of a network of autonomous collaborative partnerships focused on a wide range of energy technologies known as Technology Collaboration
Programmes or TCPs. The TCPs are organised under the auspices of the International Energy Agency (IEA), but the TCPs are functionally and legally autonomous.
Views, findings and publications of the HPT TCP do not necessarily represent the views or policies of the IEA Secretariat or its individual member countries.

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Overview• Policy• Market statistics• Research overview

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Climate and Energy Strategy••

Austrian Climate and Energy Strategy “Mission 2030”:– The strategy formulates a goal of 100% renewables in the power sector by 2030. This
ambitious goal requires additional production capacities of renewable power of 2025 TWh, mainly achieved by wind, photovoltaic and hydro power.
– Also heat pumps will play an important role (e.g. in balancing the grid). For the total
end energy consumption Austria is aiming at 46-50% of renewables by 2030. A 36%
reduction of greenhouse gas emission (compared to 2005) is targeted by 2030.
International R&D Initiative “Mission Innovation”:– Austria and Australia have launched the Mission Innovation mission “Net-zeroindustries” at the Global Clean Energy Action Forum in Pittsburgh, USA, in
September 2022

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Climate and Energy Strategy•Austrian “Renewable Heat Law- Erneuerbare-Wärme-Gesetz (EWG)”– Decarbonisation of space heating by the year 2040.
– The law was already under review and is to be approved (quickly).
– In new buildings, central oil and coal heating systems have already been banned
since 2020. From 2023, no central or decentralised heating systems that can beoperated with fossil fuels may be installed in new buildings in Austria.
– There are exceptions for buildings that have already beenapproved/planned/constructed.
– From 2023, broken oil and coal heating systems may only be replaced by climatefriendly heating systems.

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Climate and Energy Strategy•

Austrian “Renewable Heat Law- Erneuerbare-Wärme-Gesetz (EWG)”– From 2025, the mandatory decommissioning of particularly old coal and oil
heating systems begins. This begins in 2025 with all oil heating systems
older than the year of construction 1980.
– By 2035, all coal and oil heating systems in Austria must bedecommissioned.
– Climate neutrality is to be achieved in Austria by 2040, which also requires
the decarbonisation of space heating. To this end, all fossil-fuelled gas
heating systems in Austria must be decommissioned by then.
– Owners of individual units (flats) that are heated in a decentralised mannershould be enabled to connect to a climate-friendly central heating system.
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Climate and Energy Strategy• Funding schemes– Several schemes on different level available (national, counties, cities,utilities) for companies and private households– Get out of oil and gas -„Raus aus Öl und Gas“• For single and multifamily houses• Shift to district heating (efficient and climate friendly), biomass and heat pumps• Heat pump funding criteria:– EHPA quality label– Refrigerant with GWP< 1500
– Supply temperatures <40°C– No district heating available

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Policy and Quality Support•

National Heat Pump Assocation– “Wärmepumpe Austria” (WPA) is an industry association based in Linz that covers the entire value chain. At
present, over 90% of all heat pump manufacturers in Austria, all electricity supply companies via the Austrianenergy association “Österreichs Energie” and suppliers and drilling companies are organised by the WPA.

•Training for Installers:– The Austrian installers are educated in three steps called “Lehrling”, “Geselle” and Meister”. During theireducation they have to participate in trainings including exams to reach the next step. Within this, theinstallers get the basic knowledge of all heating technologies. If they want to specialize in the field of heatpumps manufacturer offer trainings on their products connected to some marketing activities.

•Quality Label and Keymark– On the Austrian market the EHPA-Quality label is used in almost every funding scheme. It covers beside someminimum requirements on the product efficiency also some customer aspects, for example to guaranty thesupport or the availability of spare parts and so on. The label is also strongly used in Germany, Switzerland,
the Czech Republic and some other countries.
– EHPA Heat Pump Keymark is recognized in Austria and can be used as the basis to apply for the EHPA-Quality
label, therefor it replaces the test report. In addition, some Austrian companies use the EHPA Heat Pump
Keymark to obtain subsidies in export countries when no more than the Keymark is required.

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Market Statistics•Data from 41 Austrian heat pump producers
and heat pump distributors• The total sales volume of heat pumps(domestic market plus export market) increased
in 2021 50,210 units sold in the previous year to57,399 units.
•This corresponds to a growth of 14,3 %.
Growth was observed both in the domestic
market (+21.6 %) and in the export market (+1.9%).
•Strong growth was particularly noticeable inheat pumps for space heating.
• Domestic hot water heat pumps showed anincrease of 9.1 % in the home market and anincrease of 23.4 % in the export market.

Market development of heat pumps in Austria until 2021 (Biermayr et.at., 2022)

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R&D in Austria•

The main research topics are the development of heat pumps for use in buildings, in district heating and coolingsystems and in industrial processes, the coupling of heat pumps to smart grids and the use of low-GWP refrigerants.

•The topics were summarized in the national technology and implementation roadmap. National research
programmes such as "Energieforschung" and the "Basisprogramm" of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency offer
appropriate funding depending on the Technology Readiness Level (TRL).

•Heat pump research is carried out at universities (Graz University of Technology, Vienna University of Technology,
Innsbruck University, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna), Universities of applied sciences(Pinkafeld University of Applied Sciences) and applied research institutes (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH)addressing both national and in the European calls (H2020).

•AIT operates the only accredited laboratory for heat pumps in Austria covering the main technologies used inEurope. The laboratory provides the ability test and investigate air/water-, brine/water-, water/water- and DX (directexpansion)/water-heat pumps.

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R&D Highlight: DryFiciency: Industrial Demonstrationwww.heatpumpingtechnologies.org

R&D Highlight: DryFiciency: Industrial Demonstrationwww.heatpumpingtechnologies.org

R&D Highlight: DryFiciency: Industrial Demonstrationwww.heatpumpingtechnologies.org

R&D Highlight: DryFiciency: Industrial Demonstrationwww.heatpumpingtechnologies.org

Monitoring energy R&D•

Austria has established a monitoring system toyearly record all energy related research,development and first-of-its-kind demonstration
projects and financed by means of public funds.

•In 2021, Austria’s public expenditures for energyrelated research and development amounted to224,1 Million Euros.

•Increase of 68,9 millions or 44,4% compared to2020•

Public funded R&D research on heat pumping
technologies and cooling devices amounts to appr.
5,8 Mio € per year.

Public energy R&D expenditures inAustria 2017–2021 – Topics according to
IEA Code (Indinger et. al, 2022)

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Summary••

Heat pumps are a relevant part of the Austrian Climate and Energy Strategies
Austrian “Renewable Heat Law- Erneuerbare-Wärme-Gesetz (EWG)” in
implementation phase• Austria has established different quality measures (also in the European context)• Good framework for research to establish new fields of applications, increasing
budgets and highlighting industrial demonstrators for high temperature heat pumps• Growing markets over the last years, positive outlook• Challenges are how to fulfill the steep implementation curves for decarbonisation(not only a heat pump topic)

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References• Andreas Indinger et al., 2022, Berichte aus Energie- undUmweltforschung 22/2022, „Energieforschungserhebung 2021“• Peter Biermayr et al, 2022, Berichte aus Energie- undUmweltforschung 21/2022 “Innovative Energietechnologien inÖsterreich Marktentwicklung 2021“

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