Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I move amendment (2) on sheet 6116 standing in my name:

(2)    Schedule 1, page 60 (after line 2), before item 100, insert:

99A  Subsection 5(1)

Insert:

air source heat pump water heater means a device that uses a vapour compression cycle incorporating a compressor, an evaporator that collects energy from the latent and sensible heat of the atmosphere and a condenser that delivers heat either directly or indirectly to a hot water storage container.

This amendment provides for a definition of air source heat pump water heaters as being ‘a device that uses a vapour compression cycle incorporating a compressor, an evaporator that collects energy from the latent and sensible heat of the atmosphere and a condenser that delivers heat either directly or indirectly to a hot water storage container’. This makes air sourced electric based heat pumps distinctly separate from other, more efficient, heat pumps, such as solar, for example, so that they can be individually considered against other technologies.