Diarmaid Williams, Decentralized Energy
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Dublin City Council has released a report advocating incentives be given to city residents to encourage take up of the city’s proposed new district heating network.
The report by Victor Coe, a senior executive engineer with Dublin city council and project manager of the Dublin district heating system (DDHS), has warned of potential difficulties in securing loans to fund the capital costs of the heating system.
“While district heating is established internationally, householders in Dublin have little or no experience of district heating on the scale proposed in the DDHS project. And it takes time for what is effectively a new utility to win the confidence of customers,” Mr Coe said.
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