Call for Abstracts for #SESAAU2026 We mix experts from industry/business & top researchers in to contribute to advance: #smartenergysystems #districtheating #energyefficiency #electrification #CCUS #PtX
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District heating networks are expanding with renewable integration—geothermal, industrial waste heat, and solar thermal—decarbonizing urban thermal infrastructure.
#DistrictHeating #Decarbonization #UrbanEnergy #ThermalNetworks www.marketresearchfuture.com/reports/dist...
District heating systems are crucial for efficient urban energy management. Explore the trends that are driving this market's expansion! 🔥
#DistrictHeating #UrbanEnergy #MarketInsights www.marketresearchfuture.com/reports/dist...
- and in particular around large-scale #heatpumps in #districtheating and small heat pumps, which together can meet more than half of total heat demand.
- a smart supply change in the excising district heating supply covering 13-15% of the current heat market
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Our Research & Campaigns team wants to hear about your #HeatNetwork experiences.
Although Ofgem now oversees heat networks with better consumer safeguards, we want to assess the effectiveness of these protections and uncover any persistent challenges.
#DistrictHeating #CommunalHeating
We’re excited to announce that London Geothermal has officially joined the @reassociation.bsky.social 🌍✨
#Geothermal #GeothermalEnergy #DistrictHeating #LondonGeothermal #RenewableEnergy
" #Ireland is "lagging considerably behind"…targets set out in the #ClimateActionPlan for decarbonising residential heat" due to low rate of retrofits, #heatpump installation, & #districtheating, & #energyefficiency measures not meeting predicted carbon savings
#SpéirGhorm
www.rte.ie/news/2026/03...
Our Research & Campaigns team wants to hear about your #HeatNetwork experiences.
Although Ofgem now oversees heat networks with better consumer safeguards, we want to assess the effectiveness of these protections and uncover any persistent challenges.
#DistrictHeating #CommunalHeating
Finnish #districtHeating CHP plants replaced fossil fuels and peat with forest residues in recent decades. 11 million cubic meters of wood chips are burnt annually.
Now #electricBoilers powered with cheap #WindPower reduce demand for wood chips by 10-20%, and -50% by 2030.
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📣 Delighted to feature in the latest DISCO e-newsletter!
Partners share takeaways from Peer Reviews in Aalborg & Assen on policy, financing and using waste heat for district heating & cooling.
👉 lnkd.in/dTZYw9DS
#DISCO #WasteHeat #DistrictHeating #DistrictCooling #EnergyTransition #InterregEurope
Our Heat & Electricity Lead (and district heating enthusiast) John O’Shea recently chatted with James Porter on the Bringing Buildings Alive podcast (CIBSE Ireland), sharing insights on the Tallaght #DistrictHeating Scheme, key barriers overcome & the power of collaboration.
👂 Listen: bit.ly/4rpQs1e
Image of the front of the European Commission building in Brussels.
Our Heat and Electricity Lead John O’Shea recently spoke at the Euroheat & Power Forum on #WasteHeat Recovery in Brussels. The event explored how collaboration can accelerate #DistrictHeating & decarbonise heat, closely aligned with our work on the DISCO project.
Learn more👉https://bit.ly/3ZjXfhb
In our latest video on the EU #HeatingAndCooling Strategy, Vanessa Gallo sets out how #bioenergy and #DistrictHeating can provide local, #AffordableHeat, and why #EUpolicy should support switching from fossil systems to efficient #renewables. Watch: bioenergyeurope.org/wp-content/u...
We explain that the construction can take a decade, and Bosnia and Herzegovina might be better placed to reduce reliance on Russian gas through the #electrification of domestic heating and clean #districtheating.
#DistrictHeating can have it’s downsides when malign forces are involved 😔
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So to oversimplify, this is a giant night storage heater! Thinking laterally, would this sort of system work for a #DistrictHeating scheme? #HeatNetworks
Would it be cost effective or just off the scale expensive?
Codema recently joined 9 European partners at two DISCO project meetings in Aalborg (DK) and Assen (NL) focused on the efficient use of waste heat in district heating and cooling, and how these projects can be financed.
👉Learn more at bit.ly/464oSyn
#DistrictHeating #EUProjects #WasteHeat #DHC
Our partner @Vantaan Energia Oy (VNT) is investing ~€200M for Varanto, the world's largest cavern thermal energy storage that will store waste heat. The bottoms of the caverns will be 100 m below ground level with 3 caverns by 2028. #districtheating #Varanto🌍🔥💡http://interstores.eu
In Odorheiu Secuiesc biomass & solar are driving the transition. A hybrid #DistrictHeating system with local #woodchips, solar collectors & thermal storage will supply clean heat.
bioenergyeurope.org/odorheiu-secuiesc-biomas... #DistrictHeatingChampions
#WarmDendermonde shows how biomass #DistrictHeating can cut emissions. VPK will replace its coal plant with #bioenergy and use surplus heat to supply homes and public buildings.
bioenergyeurope.org/warm-dendermonde-a-commu... #DistrictHeatingChampions
The #DistrictHeating operator in #Nuremberg finds in study that #SeasonalStorage of heat is feasible to achieve #decarbonisation targets, store excess heat from summer for winter demand and overcome #Dunkelflaute of 4-6 days and even up to 1 month (160 GWh stored)
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How can cities cut emissions, lower energy bills and support local jobs at the same time? Valladolid shows how with a biomass #DistrictHeating network expanding to 10,000+ homes and key public buildings, replacing fossil boilers. #DistrictHeatingChampions
bioenergyeurope.org/valladolid-b...
From field to city, #bioenergy is #heating the heart of Paris 💚🔥
In Nanterre, local agricultural residues are turned into clean heat for #LaDéfense, cutting CO₂, supporting farmers and strengthening #districtheating.
🔗 bioenergyeurope.org/from-field-t...
Aerial photo of the excavation of the 20.000 cubic meter thermal energy storage pit.
Picture of solar thermal collectors, total surface 12900 m2
Diagram of the system showing collectors, heat storage, buffer storage, Wood chip boiler and heat pump
Example of solar #DistrictHeating cooperative in Germany
#SolarwärmeBracht.
12.000 m² #solarThermal collectors
20.000 m³ #pitThermalEnergyStorage 🇩🇰 style
Solar fraction 70%
#heatPump +Biomass boiler
130 households, total 2.7 GWh/a
Price 60€/month + 16 ct/kWh
www.solarwaerme-bracht.de/faq/
A crucial point raised: converting stored thermal energy back to electricity can be inefficient. Many argue it's often more practical and energy-efficient to use the stored heat directly for district heating. #DistrictHeating 5/6
When wind power is abundant and spot prices are negative (which occurs in Finland about 700 hours per year, including winter) this #sandBattery takes excess electricity off the grid, stores 250 megawatt-hours (MWh) heat in hot sand, and afterwards feed 2 megawatts (MW) into the #districtHeating grid
🔥 #DistrictHeating is one of Europe’s smartest tools for clean, affordable heat.
Yet only 10% of heating is DH, and just 35% of that is renewable.
Most renewable DH? #Biomass — 34% of all DH in the EU.
Meet the cities leading the way 👉 bioenergyeurope.org/district-heating-champions/
#Bioenergy
• >70% of e-SAF costs come from electricity for hydrogen
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#SustainableAviationFuel #ESAF #Hydrogen #Aviation #EnergySystems #DistrictHeating #Denmark
#DistrictHeating can be Local Cooperative, as in rural Steyerberg, 🇩🇪 Germany:
-28 km network
-450 buildings
-14.000 m2 #SolarThermal
-17.000 m3 #HeatStorage tank
-5x air source #heatPumps total 1090 kW
-2x 900kW heat pumps
-950 kW biomass boiler
-cost 30 M€
www.energiezukunft.eu/buergerenerg...
