Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy Europe
Summary
The Gothenburg municipal power company has built an accumulator tank for short-term heat storage and optimising
energy supply and demand while reducing the city district heating network’s fossil fuel dependency.
Gothenburg is currently working with its municipally-owned local power company, Göteborg Energi, to decarbonise its energy system
and become climate neutral by 2030. Göteborg Energi provides Gothenburg with both electricity and heat and owns and operates
the sole district heating and cooling (DHC) network in the city. The 1,350 km network supplies heating and cooling to over 90% of
apartment buildings and to around 12,000 detached homes and factories, businesses and public buildings. The district heating
and cooling network is supplied by heat recuperation from waste incineration, oil refinery activities and electricity production
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