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Huge, specially designed heat pump saves a Norwegian agricultural cooperative millions

Huge, specially designed heat pump saves a Norwegian agricultural cooperative millions
Phys.org Thursday 02 July 2026, 01:00 UTC 1 min read
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There are some magical limits to how much energy we can get out of a heat pump. This story is about pushing the technical limits. It is about getting more energy out than you put in.

There are some magical limits to how much energy we can get out of a heat pump. This story is about pushing the technical limits. It is about getting more energy out than you put in. And it's about how SINTEF—one of Europe's largest applied research organizations—the renewable energy company Aneo, and the Norwegian agricultural cooperative Felleskjøpet together managed to shift the recovery of process heat from theoretical calculations in researchers' notebooks to becoming an industrial electricity-saving project on a large scale.
Norwegian (ORG) SINTEF (PERSON) Europe (LOCATION) Aneo (ORG) Felleskjøpet (PERSON)
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