Johnson Controls Reveals New Heat Pumps Designed to Help Decarbonize Commercial Buildings

Johnson Controls is previewing its new YORK heat pump portfolio at the 2023 AHR Expo, Feb. 6-8 in Atlanta, Georgia. Visitors to booth B1617 can see the new offerings, which include a two-module unit of the YORK YMAE Air-Cooled Inverter Scroll Modular Heat Pump and 1:12 scale models of the YORK YVWH Water-to-Water Dual Variable-Speed Screw Heat Pump and YORK CYK Water-to-Water Compound Centrifugal Heat Pump.

The electrification of heating and cooling is a critical step toward decarbonization. By replacing boilers and traditional heating and cooling equipment with high-efficiency, electric heat pumps, organizations have the potential to keep their buildings comfortable using clean energy while reducing carbon emissions and operational costs.

Designed to make commercial buildings and industrial applications more sustainable, the new, energy-efficient heat pumps also use refrigerants with the lowest global warming potential in their equipment class.

The products announced use refrigerants with a GWP below the maximum of federal and state regulations in the U.S. In fact, all three heat pumps exceed the currently published and proposed regulations going into effect on Jan. 1, 2024, and Jan. 1, 2025 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Climate Alliance. These regulations phase out the use of high-GWP hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants.