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District cooling (DC) is bogged down by various obstacles. A few of them are the lack of demand or timeline guarantee by the master developer, the issue of retrofitting within existing buildings, high upfront cost by the DC plant operator requiring long-term usage agreement, adopting building design to suit district cooling requirement, etc. All of these observations are made by Arvind Bhatnagar, general manager at TTE (Technical & Trading).

Although Bhatnagar says that rapid urbanisation along with growing infrastructure spending across GCC countries is driving the Middle East district cooling market. He says: “In 2016, the government of the UAE had set a budget of $4.62bn towards infrastructure development till 2020. Growing adoption of sustainable cooling technologies to fulfil energy conservation targets will foster the district cooling market share. Shifting trends toward optimisation of energy-efficient air conditioning will further boost the product demand.”

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