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Marion Rae

Call for heat pumps to cut industrial carbon footprint

Electrification using heat pumps to help decarbonise is being overlooked in Australia, experts say. (Diego Fedele/AAP PHOTOS)

Researchers say Australia could displace almost a fifth of the gas guzzled by industrial processes by using a commercially viable and readily available technology - heat pumps.

Data released on Thursday by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis found industrial-scale electrification using heat pumps was critical to decarbonisation, but was largely overlooked in Australia.

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