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The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €401 million Czech scheme to promote green district heating based on renewable energy and waste heat.

On 30 March in Brussels, RES-DHC and REWARDHeat, organised a joint Policy workshop on Sector Integration, gathering key sectoral players and showcasing real implementation examples.

The ReUseHeat project ended in September 2022 but its impact continues to grow!

On 13 February, RES-DHC project partners visited a technical plant in Annecy that uses lake energy to provide heating and cooling to the nearby buildings.

Policies of utilities, operators and public administrators to develop efficient and renewable district heating: a methodology to quantify their effectiveness by answering a series of key questions.

Horizon Europe Cluster 5 Info Days 15-16 December recordings and presentations are now available.

After 5 years of exploring urban waste heat recovery!

The European Sustainable Energy Awards 2023 are now open for applications

On 8 December 2022, project partners met for the first time in Athens to kick off the new project funded by LIFE Programme called SRI-ENACT.

After five years the COOL DH project has come to an end.

December 2022 - Read the latest updates from the REWARDHeat project - Smart networks integrating renewable and waste energy sources.

On 1 December 2022, the European Commission launched a large-scale public consultation on the past, present and future of the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation.

The European Technology and Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling (RHC-ETIP) sector considers a one-stop shop (or “accelerator”) necessary to support projects in reaching bankability quickly.

On 16 and 17 November 2022, another REWARDHeat project meeting took place in Marseille (France).

Ground-breaking energy storage technology will give old fossil power plants a new future as green batteries. The springboard is a new joint European project in Bornholm, Denmark, which aims to show that long-term storage of wind and solar energy is possible on a large scale. The goal is to lower the price of storage significantly, and thereby accelerate the green transition.

The ConnectHeat project kicked off in October to accelerate the decarbonisation of heating and cooling through an EU-wide implementation of citizen-led and energy community initiatives.

The consortium of the DigiBUILD project met for the first time in person at the second plenary meeting, which was held in Rome in a hybrid format.

As part of the European project “RES-DHC”, a project meeting took place in the Austrian city of Graz. Project partners learned how the city is driving heat transition forward with renewables and waste heat and discussed the opportunities for the transformation of district heating and cooling networks across Europe.

The energy crisis is making the roll-out of renewables more urgent than ever. This project will identify national policy gaps and propose effective strategies.

IEA DHC has launched the new call for proposals for Annex XIV. The new programme period will run from 1st of May 2023 to 30th of April 2026.

The two projects held a successful final event!

The new EU project aims to increase the synergy among different energy networks

Deadline extended until 26 October!

Making the energy transition a reality is going to be one of the key challenges in the coming years, and even more so for the heat transition which is still lagging behind. With the pathway to 2030 and 2050 set, we still have to decide on the levers and technologies to get us there. We are keen to know your opinion!