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The northern German city of Flensburg has commissioned one of the world’s largest seawater heat pumps to supply climate-neutral heat through its district heating system, reports regional public broadcaster NDR. The city’s municipal utility signed a contract valued at 70 million euros with US-Irish company Johnson Controls for the heat pump. The pump, with a capacity of 60 megawatts, will keep around a fifth of the city’s 100,000 inhabitants warm.
As Germany's northernmost city, Flensburg is located at the tip of the Flensburg Fjord on the Baltic Sea, only a few kilometres from the Danish border. Installing the heat pump is part of the utility’s ambition to become climate-neutral by 2035, ten years ahead of the national target year. To achieve this aim, the utility plans to add one or two more large-scale heat pumps at a later stage. Heat pumps are much more energy efficient than conventional heating systems because they don’t generate heat energy – instead, they simply transfer it from the environment into homes.
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