SupportDHC: Supporting a fast implementation of low-grade renewable energy and waste heat for district heating and cooling
Paola CAPUTO (docente coordinatore), Giulio FERLA, Marcello APRILE (DENG), Alice DENARIE (Fondazione Politecnico), Giulia SPIRITO (DENG)
Paola CAPUTO (docente coordinatore), Giulio FERLA, Marcello APRILE (DENG), Alice DENARIE (Fondazione Politecnico), Giulia SPIRITO (DENG)
The overall objective of the SUPPORT DHC project is to support a fast implementation of low-grade renewable energy (RE) and waste heat (WH) for district heating and cooling (DHC) in Europe. This is achieved by supporting DHC operators in drawing-up transformation plans leading to efficient DHC systems as defined in the Energy Efficiency Directive revision and in particular concrete investment plans for a fast implementation of packages of low-grade RE and WH measures.
In six European countries (AT, DE, IT, LT, PL, UA), the SUPPORT DHC project in cooperation with involved DHC operators demonstrates such processes and leads to investments on the ground for a variety of EU-wide DHC system cases.
At policy and regulatory level, local and regional authorities will become enablers of transformation measures as the project addresses solutions for removing barriers and framework shortcomings. Know-how gained in the SUPPORT DHC project will be disseminated to further EU DHC markets and replication will be actively organised.
DABC role
• Coordination, with reference to the Italian context, of the industry players involved as frontrunners and of the follower cases (plants that will benefit from the investment plans developed in SupportDHC)
• Support in the drafting of investment plans for plant retrofits
• Capacity building for operators and stakeholders of the sector (DABC is leader of WP5: Capacity building and framework improvement)
Partners
WIP Renewable Energies - WIP GmbH & Co Planungs KG (coordinator), AGFW, AEE - Institut für Nachhaltige Technologien - Institute for Sustainable Technologies, Euroheat & Power, Planenergi, Halmstad University, Lietuvos šilumos tiekėjų asociacija, City Institute of Lviv, e-think, Association of Municipalities Polish Network “Energie Cités”
