Heat Roadmap Europe 4

Duration:

March 2016 to February 2019.

Description / Objectives:

In Europe, there is a clear long-term objective to decarbonise the energy system, but it is very unclear how this will be achieved in the heating and cooling sector. As a result, there is currently a lot of uncertainty among policymakers and investors in the heating and cooling sector, primarily due to a lack of knowledge about the long-term changes that will occur in the coming decades. HRE4 aimed at enabling new policies as well as preparing the ground for new investments by creating more certainty in relation to the changes that are required.

Since heating and cooling are inherently local, but represent the largest single sector of the European energy system, this has required highly localised data through energy mapping; national modelling and Heat Roadmaps, bottom-up European-wide technology and stock knowledge, and guidelines at all levels.

Results / Publications:

Roadmaps

• Main Report and Heat Roadmaps by Country

Guidelines for Lead Users and Business Strategies

• Business strategies and business cases to encourage market uptake
  • Addressing barriers for the market uptake of recommended heating and cooling solutions (final report)
  • Addressing barriers for the market uptake of recommended solutions  (preliminary report)

• Guidelines for the Energy System Transition
  • The Energy Union Perspective (European level)
  • The National Aspects of the HRE 2050 Scenario and Associated Policy Recommendations (National level)
  • Recommendations for Local and Regional Policymakers (Local and Regional level)

Mapping

• Pan-European Thermal Atlas 4
• Demand and Resource Atlases for all 14 MSs
• Map of the heat synergy regions and the cost to expand district heating and cooling in all 14 MSs D2.2
• Methodology and assumptions used in the mapping
• Maps manual for lead-users
• Updated Peta atlas for each MS with the final level of district heating recommended in WP6

Profiling

• Profile of heating and cooling demand in 2015
• Space Cooling Technology in Europe – Technology Data and Demand Modelling
• Baseline scenario of the heating and cooling demand in buildings and industry in the 14 MSs until 2050
• FORECAST Guide for LeadUsers | Understanding heating and cooling data for 2015 and 2050

Savings

• Method for developing demand cost-potential curves
• Cost-curves for heating and cooling demand reduction in the built environment and industry in the 14 MSs
• Cost-curve Guide for Lead Users | Relating investments to delivered energy savings

Energy Systems

• Baseline scenario of the total energy system up to 2050 | JRC-EU-TIMES model outputs for the 14 Member States and the EU:  Business-as-usual reference scenarios.
• Baseline scenario of the total energy system up to 2050 | Insights from JRC-EU-TIMES for Lead-Users

Scenarios

• Hourly energy system models (EnergyPLAN) for each of the 14 MSs for the business-as-usual scenario
  >> Download the hourly models <<
• Future fuel prices review for the EU28
• Review of the cost variation in energy plants across the 14 MSs
• JRC-EU-TIMES and EnergyPLAN comparison | Methodology report for comparing the JRC-EU-TIMES and EnergyPLAN scenarios

Promotional material

• Heating & Cooling – facts and figures (brochure 2017)
• The Legacy of Heat Roadmap Europe 4 (final brochure 2019)

HRE4 Countries:

HRE4 covered the 14 countries in the EU ranked largest by heat demand. This means that with these 14 countries, the project covered 85-90% of the heating and cooling demands in Europe, which makes the HRE4 results hugely relevant for the EU level.

• Belgium (BE)
• Czech Republic (CZ)
• Germany (DE)
• Spain (ES)
• France (FR)
• Italy (IT)
• Hungary (HU)
• Netherlands (NL)
• Austria (AT)
• Poland (PL)

   

• Romania (RO)
• Finland (FI)
• Sweden (SE)
• United Kingdom (UK)

Websites:

http://heatroadmap.eu/

http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/200265_en.html

Funding:

Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme