Need for innovations in ground-source heat pumps technologies

The output of ground, water or air-based heat pumps is energy, to be used for producing electricity, needed at residential and commercial spaces. To properly make use of such energies house plan should include the installation of equipment which can trap renewable source of energies from the environment at a low cost, delivers more, and works anytime, irrespective, of environmental changes.  Most such projects work on batteries and hence, the demand for storage batteries is also growing in the markets. 

Ground-source heat pumps (GSHP), ground-heat exchangers and hybrid-ground-source heat pumps are parts of the systems, providing energy from nature. Ground source can mishmash wind and earth energies to heat and cool the air. Simplest methods used to trap such energies are devices that run air into building’s ventilation. Such systems provide clean energy in extreme climatic conditions and save hundreds and millions of dollars in a year. Currently, more than 600,000 such pumps are installed at US homes, and policies are being developed to promote the installation of such facilities at home. 

These pumps are not suitable to houses which have gas fired central heating system, whilst, its installation can be expensive –cost up to 18,000 pounds (in the UK) depending on the size of official or residential area.  Currently, the UK government provides financial help for installing GSHP, where incentives are given to the householder for installation of such pumps. E.g. For a three to four bedroom house incentive can be in the range of 2,000 to 3,000 pounds. Its main drawback is that the house may take more time for heating in winters and to run it, again some electricity is required- so it is not completely green.  It may even need a supplement power source for heating. Energy saving trusts claims such pumps can save up to 1,200 pounds per annum. The government should provide help for the installation of such devices at home and offer services to prevent complications during installation. Research and development in the field of nature-friendly energy options is required to prevent loss of such energies. 

Globally, the market of such heat pumps has grown in the past few years and buildings in Southeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Japan and China are now being constructed based on the new environmental regulations that support green technologies. Fundamentally, the need for such equipments is more in industrial sector, which accounts for majority of emissions. Households are responsible for carbon emissions but lesser as compared to global industrial sector where the energy demand is very high. 

Countries like Turkey has plans to use such energies which can share electricity production and it also plans to make flexible options of delivering energy and electricity.  Technological development is needed to perk up storage.  Turkey plans to implement new technologies to heat/ cool or use it in industrial or transportation. Globally, a number of countries have aggressive energy reduction targets, which can be met by eliminating inconsistency, in the way, these sources are deployed and used for energy production. 

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