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Summary
Throughout Europe, an estimated 67 million people rely on the heat provided by district heating networks. These systems distribute heat from a centralised location through a network of insulated pipes, which heat both rooms and water.
Often, they are using the waste heat from a cogeneration plant burning fossil fuels or biomass – heat that would have been otherwise wasted. But they can also circulate the heat from geothermal sources, nuclear plants, heat pumps, central solar heating or heat-only boiler stations.
EU policy has sought to encourage the use of these combined heat and power district networks, particularly where their carbon can be lowered, such as when they switch the source from a coal-fired plant to a gas-powered plant. However, different district heating systems are at different stages of progress in reaching net zero emissions.
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