Zero-Carbon Home Heating in China’s Yangtze River Delta Region: Heat Pumps as a Core Solution

The report identifies heat pumps as an energy-efficient, low-emissions solution for home heating in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region, where over 20 million residents currently lack heating systems. It projects a significant increase in heating demand by 2030 and provides recommendations to overcome barriers to scaling heat pump adoption.

• The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region is identified as having the highest potential to develop a zero-carbon heating pathway and serve as a model for other southern Chinese regions due to its economic advancement and high population density.
• Analysis indicates that over 20 million residents in the YRD region currently lack home heating systems and will require new facilities, leading to a projected increase in heating demand of more than 500 million gigajoules by 2030, which represents 40 percent of the total heating demand from 2020.
• Heat pumps are proposed as a core solution for zero-carbon home heating in the YRD region because they are energy efficient and produce low emissions.

APA

RMI (2024). Zero-Carbon Home Heating in China’s Yangtze River Delta Region: Heat Pumps as a Core Solution. https://rmi.org/resources/zero-carbon-home-heating-in-chinas-yangtze-river-delta-region/

Chicago

RMI. Zero-Carbon Home Heating in China’s Yangtze River Delta Region: Heat Pumps as a Core Solution. 2024. https://rmi.org/resources/zero-carbon-home-heating-in-chinas-yangtze-river-delta-region/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{rmi2024zerocarbon, author = {{RMI}}, title = {{Zero-Carbon Home Heating in China’s Yangtze River Delta Region: Heat Pumps as a Core Solution}}, institution = {RMI}, year = {2024}, month = jan, url = {https://rmi.org/resources/zero-carbon-home-heating-in-chinas-yangtze-river-delta-region/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }