Vattenfall
Summary
While reducing emissions to net zero may seem like a difficult and perhaps daunting challenge, it also presents an opportunity to re-imagine our society and think in terms of innovative and alternative solutions. This is particularly true in the heating sector.
In private homes, heat has traditionally been generated by combustion of coal, oil, gas, biomass, and other fuels in boilers. In district heating systems, heat is still often generated by these fuels as well and then – in the form of hot water - supplied through a network of underground pipes from the place of generation to private households, industries, and organisations as shown in the animation below.
Most people would probably not expect that also colder sources such as river water and even sewage can be used as sources of heating. However, in the Netherlands, Vattenfall has joined hands with a 1,000-household cooperative in the Poelgeest eco-district who has taken the initiative to use water from the local sewage treatment plant as a heat source to heat their homes and replace the present gas-fired power plant.
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