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A new design for an artificially intelligent residential heat pump can potentially achieve energy savings of 5%-13% for homeowners. The tech breakthrough was recently announced by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Germany, the largest solar research institute in Europe, in a press release that states that the next-generation heat pumps can use artificial neural networks to learn and adapt to changing environmental conditions. Read more
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President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order formally creating a National Energy Dominance Council and directed it to move quickly to drive up already record-setting domestic oil and gas production.
Trump’s administration also announced it has granted conditional export authorization for a huge liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Louisiana, the first approval of new LNG exports since former President Joe Biden paused consideration of them a year ago. Read more
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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced a delay in enforcing parts of its recently published regulation banning commonly used refrigerants. This decision provides flexibility for distributors and end-users to navigate the stringent requirements, ensuring consumers maintain access to vital refrigeration products. The DEC has delayed enforcing the bulk refrigerant sales prohibition by three months to April 9. It is also allowing the sale of two common refrigerants used by supermarkets, restaurants and convenience stores until the end of 2025. Read more
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California residents now pay the highest price for electricity in the continental U.S. Costs have been driven in part by levies to prevent and insure against wildfires, but analysts anticipate a less conspicuous source of pressure on power bills going forward—growing electricity demand from data centers. In response, California lawmakers have recently proposed bills to ensure that electricity customers don’t pay for the infrastructure that utility companies build to serve data centers—and to encourage more energy efficiency or use of clean energy on the part of the tech companies, entrepreneurs and IT departments that use the centers. Read more
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Join hosts Matt Walters, Associate Member ASHRAE, and Allison Hambrick, ASHRAE Journal Assistant Editor, for a discussion with 2024–25 ASHRAE President Dennis Knight about this term’s ASHRAE Society theme “Empowering Our Workforce: Building a Sustainable Future” and what’s next for the HVAC&R industry.
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Feature of the Week
By Lochan Sai Reddy Chinthaparthy, Satyam Saini, Ph.D., Pardeep Shahi, Ph.D., Pratik Vithoba Bansode, Ph.D., Himanshu Girishchandra Modi and Dereje Agonafer, Ph.D.
This article provides an in-depth experimental analysis of the accelerated degradation of copper cold plates used in high-power direct-to-chip liquid cooling in data centers. Download here
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The 2025 ASHRAE Winter Conference brought together HVAC&R industry leaders, experts and professionals for an engaging and impactful event focused on key topics such as artificial intelligence, emerging technologies and workforce development. Taking place February 8-12 in Orlando, Florida, the conference attracted close to 3,800 attendees and featured more than 400 committee meetings, 111 technical sessions and numerous networking and social events. Running concurrently, the AHR Expo occupied the Orange County Convention Center, hosting more than 1,800 exhibitors, showcasing the latest HVAC&R technologies, products and services to an estimated 50,000 attendees over three days. Read more
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Honeywell, one of the last remaining U.S. industrial conglomerates, will split into three independent companies, following in the footsteps of manufacturing giants like General Electric and Alcoa. The company said that it will separate from its automation and aerospace technologies businesses. Including plans announced earlier to spin off its advanced materials business, Honeywell will consist of three smaller entities in hopes that they will each be more agile. Read more
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