Dear readers,

Welcome to our new RES-DHC newsletter!

This newsletter emerged from our Horizon 2020 project “RES-DHC – Renewable Energy Sources for District Heating and Cooling” which we started in September 2020. As project partners, we joined in teams of heat suppliers, local authorities, consultants and institutes, aiming at finding and demonstrating the best solutions for increasing the RES share in the DHC systems in our six RES-DHC model regions.

With our newsletter we would like to share our project findings and outcomes with you regularly and to come in contact with you. Please make sure that you already became a subscriber of our newsletter here and enjoy reading the first news about the project start in our RES-DHC regions.

Your RES-DHC project team
March 2021

In the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg – one of the RES-DHC model regions – the legislator introduced a compulsory municipal heat planning for the 103 biggest cities. For the first time, cities have to develop their vision for a CO₂-neutral heat supply in the year 2050. The Danish example was successfully adopted to German boundary conditions and a boost of district heating systems is expected.

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The Interreg Central Europe project ENTRAIN addresses quality management systems for RES DHC networks in rural areas. Such a QM system is now introduced in the Italian Region Friuli Venezia Giulia. A good reason for the ENTRAIN and RES-DHC projects to team up.

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Poland – as one of the implementing countries of the RES-DHC project – has Europe’s second largest district heating market. Currently, there are around 400 district heating networks in Poland, supplying heat to approximately 16.5 million residents. 80 % of the network is still powered using hard coal. The second edition of the “Ciepłownictwo Powiatowe” (‘district heat’) programme was recently launched to speed up the decarbonisation of district heating in Poland.

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Thirty representatives of public infrastructure, heating network operators, engineering offices, regional planners, experts and financiers were informed about the RES-DHC project, discussing decarbonisation and the opportunities provided by the project.

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The RES-DHC project (Renewable Energy Sources in the District Heating and Cooling sector) was kicked-off in October 2020 and will focus on increasing the share of renewable energy in district heating and cooling systems across Europe. 15 project partners from 8 countries including research institutes, companies and cities from Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Switzerland as well as the European umbrella organisation Euroheat & Power, based in Brussels, Belgium have joined forces to drive the decarbonisation of the DHC sector.

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Solar thermal will have a key role to play in growing western Europe’s solar district heating markets over the next decades.

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As early as November 2020, the national association Austria Solar put a new decision-making tool called Quick Check BIOSOL on its website. In essence, the program helps plant owners to find out whether their district heating networks could benefit from solar heat integration.

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The Chinese parabolic trough collector manufacturer Inner Mongolia XuChen Energy has successfully operated a huge solar district heating plant since 2016 in a village near Baotou in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of China.

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Euroheat & Power Congress
The theme of the 40th Euroheat & Power Congress is FORWARD TOGETHER
03-05 May 2021

17th International Symposium on DHC
The world’s gathering place for district heating and cooling experts from academia and industry
06-09 Sep 2021

7th International Conference on Smart Energy Systems
This year’s conference will be a hybrid event with the possibility of attending either online or in person
21-22 Sep 2021

Take a look at our calendar of events...