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LG Electronics launches first heat pump pilot at Jeju apartment, proposes gas-free housing model
LG Electronics on Tuesday signed an agreement with Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, Jeju Development Corp and the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology to push a project to electrify cooling and heating in multi-family housing and to run a Power to Heat pilot. The company will install heat pumps at a lived-in apartment complex in Seogwipo, its first such domestic demonstration. The project combines household heat pumps with a central hot-water P2H system and aims to use operating data for wider deployment.