#ECOR2603340AFrance Updates Energy Savings Certificate Rules for Industrial Waste-Heat Heat Pumps
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This measure updates France’s energy savings certificate scheme for industrial heat pumps that raise the temperature of recovered waste heat. It defines which systems qualify, including electrically driven vapor-compression heat pumps with a hot-side thermal capacity of up to 5 MW, used to supply process heat, space heating, or hot water on an industrial site. Industrial operators, installers, and energy-efficiency certificate applicants will need to check the new eligibility rules before claiming certificates. The text sets limits on double-counting the same waste-heat source, excludes several heat sources such as geothermal, aerothermal, solar thermal, cogeneration, and emergency-equipment effluent heat, and applies to operations started before 1 January 2031.
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Key Changes
- Creates or updates a standard energy savings certificate operation for industrial heat pumps using recovered waste heat.
- Sets eligibility conditions, including a maximum hot-side thermal capacity of 5 MW and minimum temperature requirements for the incoming waste-heat fluid.
- Limits double-counting of the same waste-heat source and excludes certain heat sources from the certificate calculation.
Obligations
What this law requires
To qualify for certificates under operation IND-UT-137, the heat pump system must be installed on an industrial site to raise the temperature of recovered waste heat and cover an on-site heat need, such as process heat, space heating, or domestic hot water.
The eligible heat pump system must use vapor-compression technology driven by an electric motor and must have a hot-side thermal capacity of 5 MW or less.
The installation of the heat pump system must be carried out by a professional in order for certificates to be issued.
Applicants must not combine operation IND-UT-137 with operations IND-UT-103, IND-UT-118, IND-UT-138, or IND-UT-139 for the same fraction of recovered waste-heat source.
If additional fractions of heat from the same waste-heat source are claimed under other certificate operations, the total volume of all valued waste-heat fractions must not exceed the total heat volume of that waste-heat source.