Reverse cycle heat pump system
Energy storage in buildings - a technology overview (BG 73/2018), written by John Piggott and published by BSRIA in 2018, defines a reverse cycle heat pump system as: ‘A heat pump system which can work in both directions; either extracting heat or injecting it.’
--BSRIA
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