{"id":909,"date":"2021-04-08T10:40:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T10:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.imit.it\/?p=909"},"modified":"2021-04-08T10:40:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T10:40:27","slug":"harp-project-towards-the-efficiency-of-domestic-heating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.imit.it\/en\/home\/harp-project-towards-the-efficiency-of-domestic-heating\/","title":{"rendered":"HARP project: towards the efficiency of domestic heating"},"content":{"rendered":"

HARP<\/a> is a European Union project, one of the initiatives funded by the Horizon 2020 program<\/a>, to encourage the use of more efficient heating technologies. The acronym stands for Heating Appliances Retrofit Planning and Italy is among the five member countries involved, together with Portugal, Spain, France and Germany, with the partnership ofAssotermica<\/a>, Enea<\/a> and Eurac Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

HARP’s goal<\/h2>\n

HARP<\/a>‘s goal is to directly sensitize the end user, letting them know the benefits of replacing old space heating appliances and for the production of domestic hot water, with more performing ones.\u00a0It\u2019s estimated, in fact, that out of 126 million\u00a0boilers installed in the European Union, 60%\u00a0is inefficient, with an energy class C or lower, probably with an age of over 15, and that 84% is powered by fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

Often, consumers are not aware of the inefficiency of their heating systems, tending to replace them only at the time of a failure, otherwise considering it a complicated and expensive operation, thus ignoring the potential economic and environmental savings achievable with a new generation appliance. .<\/p>\n