Fjernvarme-FoU i Europa

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Fjernvarme-FoU i Europa

• Sven Werner
• Högskolan i Halmstad

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Outline

• Technology platform DHC
• DHC, vision paper
• DHC, strategic research agenda
• DHC, projects
• Ecoheat4EU

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Technology Platform DHC

• Active since December 1, 2008.
• 27 paying active partners
• 11 adjunct partners
• 4 DHC associations
• 4 international associations or agreements
• 14 universities and research institutes
• 4 DHC equipment suppliers
• 1 consulting company
• 11 DHC suppliers

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DHC, Vision paper

• The future starts today
• Vision 2020 deploying best practices
• Vision 2030 realizing the greater potential
• Vision 2050 zero carbon solutions
• Annex DHC fundamental idea
• Download at www.dhcplus.eu

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DHC, Strategic Research Agenda

• The essential challenges are the major market,
  legal, internal, and political conditions that
  the European DHC industry must meet and overcome
  in order to strengthen its competitiveness on the
  European energy market.
• If the European DHC industry will master these
  challenges, the importance of DHC and the added
  value from the DHC benefits will grow in Europe.

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The 10 DHC challenges

• 1. Ensuring customer loyalty
• 2. Convincing new customers
• 3. Convincing policymakers
• 4. Fossil transition
• 5. Future legal frameworks
• 6. Future demands
• 7. Handicraft industry
• 8. Technology transition
• 9. Knowledge transfer
• 10. Contribution to the EU energy policies

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DHC, Projects and Proposals

• Ecoheat4EU, 0.95 M
• Three applications for the IEE June 2009 call
  Ecoheat4cities, Urban Planners with Renewable
  Energy Skills (UP-RES) Stimulate the Use of
  Renewable Energy sources based on District
  Heating systems (SURE DH), each of about 1 M
• Preparing an application for the 7FP-PPP November
  2009 call, about 10M
• Several more project ideas in the pipeline

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Supported by
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Ecoheat4EU

• BASICS
• Starting date 1 June 2009
• End date 31 June 2011 (duration 25 months)
• Kick-off meeting 22 23 June 2009
• Budget 953,115
• Supported by IEE with 75 of eligible costs
• 16 partners from15 countries

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Ecoheat4EU
OVERALL AIM The Ecoheat4EU project aims to
create the preconditions and initiate a
transformation of national legislative frameworks
to ensure the effective promotion of modern DHC
systems. BY comprehensively surveying and
analysing (support) legislation for DHC in a wide
range of European countries and presenting
policy-makers with tools to improve the
legislative environment for DHC.
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Ecoheat4EU

• OBJECTIVES (1/2)
• Provide DHC stakeholders with relevant
  information on DHC (support) legislation employed
  throughout Europe
• Provide DHC stakeholders with analytical tools to
  assist in interactions with national
  policy-makers and for company strategies
• Achieve transformations in the national
  legislative/ policy frameworks to ensure better
  address of DHC needs

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Ecoheat4EU

• OBJECTIVES (2/2)
• Take into use a District Heating Barometer that
  allows to measure the development of DH on
  national markets
• Achieve wide communication on the project
  outcomes.

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Ecoheat4EU

• KEY DELIVERABLES
• Database on the project website with data on 14
  participating countries
• Recommendations for national policy-makers for 9
  countries
• Road maps for DHC development for 5 countries
• Paper for EU policy-makers with feedback on
  implementation of key EC Directives relating to
  DHC
• DH Barometer functioning in 11 countries

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Ecoheat4EU
PARTNERS
Euroheat Power - Brussels Halmstad University -
Sweden AGFW - Germany Building Research
Establishment - UK French District Heating and
Cooling Association - France Aiguasol -
Spain Swedish District Heating Association -
Sweden RPS Consulting - Ireland Association for
District Heating in the Czech Republic - Czech
Rep. Trentino Technological Cluster -
Italy Lithuanian Energy Institute -
Lithuania Danish District Heating Association -
Denmark Finnish Energy Industries - Finland COGEN
Romania - Romania Norwegian District Heating
Association - Norway Energy Institute Hrvoje
Pozar - Croatia
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