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Development of Future EU District Heating and Cooling Network Solutions, Sharing Experiences and Fostering Collaborations

Costa, A., Loureiro, T., Passerini, F. , Lopez, S., Pietrushka, D., Klepal, M., Halikias, G. ORCID: 0000-0003-1260-1383, Meintanis, I. ORCID: 0000-0002-1920-1801, Moustakidis, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-1090-2177, Karcanias, N. ORCID: 0000-0002-1889-6314, Bucholz, M. & Arias, I. (2017). Development of Future EU District Heating and Cooling Network Solutions, Sharing Experiences and Fostering Collaborations. Proceedings, 1(7), article number 1105. doi: 10.3390/proceedings1071105

Abstract

Heating and cooling consume half of the EU’s energy and much of it is wasted. The lion’s share of heating and cooling is still generated from fossil fuels, mainly natural gas, while only 18% is generated from renewable energy. In order to fulfil the EU’s climate and energy goals, the heating and cooling sector must therefore sharply reduce its energy consumption and cut its use of fossil fuels. To this end the European Commission adopted a heating and cooling strategy in February 2016 as part of the wider Energy Union Package. A number of activities and projects funded by the programmes of European Union are supporting this new EU heating and cooling strategy.

Publication Type: Article
Additional Information: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).
Publisher Keywords: heating and cooling; district energy; district heating and cooling; INDIGO; FLEXYNETS; E2District; InDeal; H-Disnet; SDHp2m
Subjects: J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Departments: School of Science & Technology > Engineering
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