Air energy industry ushered in policies to foster a new decade

Before the National Day Mid-Autumn Promotion season, air energy companies who had been looking forward to waiting for the list of energy conservation policies were finally relieved.

On September 16, the promotion of the second batch of air-source heat pump water heaters for energy-saving appliance subsidies was announced in 2012. 32 companies including Midea and Nuentai were short-listed, and the two-and-a-half months of anxious waiting became the joy of finalists.

Like all household appliance industries, air energy companies attach great importance to the golden promotion period of “Jin 9 Silver 10”. This year’s double-overlapped 8-day long holiday is even more important.

However, unlike gas water heaters and solar water heaters, the national policy for air source water heaters is more obvious. A large number of gas and solar energy companies that cannot be specifically counted have only 17 models of 218 models and 94 models of 1400 models. Only 400 companies in the air source industry have 58 companies and 724 products have been obtained. The promotion qualification.

The Deputy Secretary-General of the China Heat Pump Industry Union, Leng Yuejin, said that as an emerging green industry, solar energy and air energy industries have innate industrial advantages in participating in the application and promotion of energy-saving and people-friendly projects, which is in line with the promotion goals and energy saving of the “Energy-saving Project”. The need for emission reductions.

It is understood that heat pump technology has been developed in China for 10 years. From 2002, small-batch air-source heat pump water heaters were produced. By 2011, the industry output value has expanded to nearly 4.5 billion yuan; the production enterprises have grown from the initial few dozens. At present, there are about 400 homes and a complete supporting and market competition system has been formed. However, from the perspective of the overall hot water market, the share of air energy water heaters is still very small. According to industry data, it is still less than 5%. The lack of policy support and low market awareness has become a major bottleneck restricting industrial development.

Song Zhongkui, executive deputy secretary-general of the China Energy Conservation Association, said that in 2012, air energy could be included in the category of subsidies for energy-saving projects for the benefit of the people, and for the first time it was recognized at the national policy level, which was of extraordinary significance to the development of the industry. "This is an important milestone in the history of the development of the air energy industry. The industry will usher in a new era."

For most companies, the policy implications of subsidies for the air energy industry are far greater than economic benefits. US Minister of Water Machinery Sales Zhang Xuelin said: “This energy subsidies are not of great significance in terms of the amount, because after the subsidy, the price of air energy water heaters is still a lot higher than other water heaters. But in terms of promotion, Our significance is very significant."

It is reported that air energy short-listed companies have actively invested in energy-saving products Huimin promotion, with the arrival of holiday season in the second half of the holiday season, promotion efforts are also constantly strengthened. Industry analysts believe that at the end of the year and early next year, policy guidance will be further demonstrated.