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50 Summer 2017 European Energy Innovation

DISTRICT HEATING

Clean Energy Package:

District Heating to Boost

EU Energy Transition

By Dana Popp (pictured), Euroheat & Power

2016 marked the end of the and cooling industry, represented in pumps) and acting as energy storage.
process that brought the Brussels by Euroheat & Power, firmly Finally, utilising excess heat from
heating sector in general, and established its status as an enabler for industrial sites and the services’ sector
district heating and cooling the energy transition. District heating across the EU can significantly reduce
in particular, to the centre of the EU can efficiently integrate renewable the sector’s dependency on fossil fuels.
energy policy debate, culminating energy sources such as biomass,
with the publication of the first ever EU geothermal and solar thermal energy. But this was only the beginning. At the
Heating and Cooling Strategy. Moreover, district heating networks can end of 2016, the European Commission
help balance power networks by using issued the so called “Clean Energy
With this occasion, our district heating excess electricity (via large scale heat Package”, a set of new legislative

Solar district heating collector field in Dronninglund, Denmark (Photo: Arcon Sunmark)

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