Polish heat pump market upsurge

摘要

With Poland's heat pump market reporting robust sales, local companies are optimistic about positive perspectives over the upcoming years. The market grew by about 20% in 2012. Last year, 12,650 heat pumps were sold in Poland, up from 10,570 units in 2011. Here we look at the facts behind the figures. According to the Polish Organisation of Heat Pump Technology Development (PORT PC), by 2016, heat pump sales in Poland are forecasted to expand to about 16,000 units per year. Presently, the market is dominated by two types of heat pumps - brine-to-water and air-to-water, which together accounted for as much as 82 percent of the Polish sales in 2012. A year-to-year increase in sales was reported in four out of five market segments, as shown by data published by PORT PC. More specifically, sales of brine-to-water heat pumps were up from 4,300 to 4,800 units, an increase of 11.6 percent over a year earlier; sales of air-to-water units for domestic hot water use increased from 4,500 to 5,600 pumps, up 24.4 percent; and sales of other air-to-water units expanded from 1,300 to 1,750, up 34.6 percent. Meanwhile, the direct evaporation soil-to-water segment posted a robust increase of 59.1 percent from 220 to 350 units. The only segment of the Polish heat pump market which did not report an expansion in 2012 was water-to-water, which posted a decrease of some 40 percent from 250 to as little as 150 units.