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More than a third of Germany's municipalities are working on municipal heat planning to help phase out fossil fuel systems, with 13 percent already finished with their plans, reports news agency dpa.
Large municipalities with more than 45,000 inhabitants are the most advanced, with 98 percent having already started or finished their heat planning, according to the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW).
Municipal heat planning is a key tenet of Germany's aim to become climate-neutral by 2045. The federal government introduced a law in 2023 giving cities with over 100,000 inhabitants until mid-2026 and smaller towns until mid-2028 to come up with a plan for transitioning to climate-neutral heating, which to a large extent is supposed to happen through an expansion of district heating. Today, district heat is mostly produced from fossil fuels like gas and coal, but it provides a relatively easy way to switch hundreds of homes to renewable-based heating at the same time by converting one larger facility.
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