40,000 heat pumps supplied in Czechia in H1, up 60% year on year

Czech households and businesses acquired around 40.000 heat pumps in the first half of this year, a 60 percent increase year on year. Most were air-to-water units, accounting for approximately 97 percent of the market. This is according to statistics from the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MPO) and the Chamber of Renewable Energy Sources, which expects demand to continue rising.

Demand for heat pumps has grown year after year, but rose sharply only last year. More than 60.000 units were installed in Czechia over the full year, twice as many as a year earlier. The installed capacity of the units increased more than fourfold, reaching 289 kilowatts (kW). The current heat pump boom is also reflected in statistics on applications for installation subsidies, whose number rose by a tenth year on year in the first half of the year. Since 2010, 265.000 heat pumps have been supplied to the domestic market, with a large share of them added in the past two years.