Project description
Performance upgrade of European district heating networks
The contribution of district heating (DH) in the EU accounts for 12 % of the total final heating and cooling energy consumption. Although only a limited share of DH networks are highly efficient and based on renewables, they present a significant potential for the transition of the heat sector. Core activities of the EU-funded Upgrade DH project include the collection of the best upgrading measures and tools, support of the upgrading process, organisation of capacity building measures, identification of financing and business models, and development of national and regional action plans, as well as an awareness-raising campaign. Outcomes will be deployed for the initiation of the DH upgrading process in Europe and beyond.
Objective
The overall objective of the Upgrade DH project is to improve the performance of inefficient district heating networks in Europe by supporting selected demonstration cases for upgrading, which can be replicated in Europe.
The Upgrade DH project supports the upgrading and retrofitting process of DH systems in different climate regions of Europe, covering various countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Denmark, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, and The Netherlands. In each of the target countries, the upgrading process will be initiated at concrete DH systems of the so called Upgrade DH demonstration cases (demo cases). The gained knowledge and experiences will be further replicated to other European countries and DH systems (replication cases) in order to leverage the impact.
Core activities of the Upgrade DH project include the collection of the best upgrading measures and tools, the support of the upgrading process for selected district heating networks, the organisation of capacity building measures about DH upgrading, financing and business models, as well as the development of national and regional action plans. In addition, an image raising campaign for modern DH networks will be carried out in the Upgrade DH project. The outcome will be the initiation of district heating upgrading process in the above mentioned target countries and beyond.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringthermodynamic engineering
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energycoal
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- agricultural sciencesagricultural biotechnologybiomass
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
81369 Muenchen
Germany
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.