Europe’s heat pump sales have declined for the second year in a row, from 2.8 million in 2022 to 2.6 million in 2023 and now just 2 million units in 2024, per statistics from the European Heat Pump Association surveying the 13 biggest national markets in the region (these states constitute 85% of Europe’s total sales). The UK was the only market in which sales grew. Heat pumps are not just a considerable expense to install – they also consume electricity, which in Europe is expensive, making their deployment dependent to a significant extent on government incentives. Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, has announced that there is space for 322.2 MW of distributed solar on its grid for Q1 2025 (as…