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NIBE’s ‘Expert News’ Features GeoExchange Australia

Following on from our very successful NIBE training event at PICAC in Melbourne in May this year, we generated enough interest and excitement within NIBE that they featured the event in their regular bi-annual publication – Expert News:

Northern Sweden or southern Europe. NIBE’s heat pumps are accustomed to long trips before being bolted down in their new homes. But sometimes, they are transported as far  as  15,527  kilometers  to  Sydney,  Australia.  Which  is where  NIBE’s  Sören  Hasselbalch  recently  went  to  visit Geoexchange, NIBE’s distributor in the land “down under”.

” We have cooperated with GeoExchange for  about  four  years  and  they  are  a  well- established actor in geothermal heating in Australia. Their CEO is the chairman of the Australian Heat Pump Association and represents the interests of geothermal heat and  heat  pumps  in  this  enormous  land,” says  Sören  Hasselbalch,  whose  everyday job  is  to  offer  technical  support  at  NIBE After Sales.

Sören is used to travelling as he is responsible  for  providing  technical  support of NIBE’s products to installers in Russia, the Nordics, northern Europe, the Baltic states, Italy, Greece and Australia. In May of 2018, he traveled to Australia to train and learn from distributor GeoExchange.

Underfloor heating and hanging out at the pool Australia has somewhat different heating needs  than  Sweden.  Heating  is  primarily needed for tap water and smaller water- borne  systems.  Air  heating  is  generally done through the ventilation system using gas or electricity. Cooling is more often in focus for chillers and is generally separate from the heating system. So, when it comes to heat pumps, it is desirable that they man- age to generate cooling and to heat floors, water and pools.

” In my experience, Australia is far behind Sweden  when  it  comes  to  using  energy efficient  heat  pumps  to  increase  comfort and to save money. But GeoExchange is propelling development and has to date, installed approximately 50 of NIBE’s air/water pumps in houses that use them for both heating  and  cooling.  It  is  pretty  even between NIBE F2120 and F2040 when it comes to sales,” says Sören.

Air/water is the thing NIBE’s  most  long-distance  distributor GeoExchange  has  attended  a  number  of training sessions at NIBE Energy Systems in Markaryd and via Skype. Now that we have been collaborating for a few years, the plan is to assemble a greater number of heat pumps boasting NIBE’s proud name in Australia. But according to Sören most of them will be air/water systems, and he describes why below.

” For many years GeoExchange has sold American  WaterFurnace  (owned  by  NIBE) ground-source heat pumps. They can focus on  ground-source  heating  and  NIBE  will deal   with   air/water.   Our   fantastic   NIBE F2120 will surely make the Australians fall in  love  with  our  ability  to  extract  energy from  the  air,”  concludes  Sören,  who  only had  one  little  complaint  about  his  visit  to the distributor.

” It’s   typical   that   my   first   trip   to Australia  would  have  to  be  during  their winter and that my family and friends at home were boasting 25-degree weather,” says Sören with a chuckle.

Click on the link / image below to read about how they see the heat pump market in the land down under.

Nibe and GeoExchange Australia

 

 

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