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Eight countries in Europe use renewables for more than half of their heating and cooling needs

By District Energy posted 04-07-2025 10:58

  

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Several factors explain the differences in renewable energy use for heating and cooling, Professor Pawel Oclon of Cracow University of Technology in Poland tells Euronews Green.

Experts from the Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy (IEECP) - Ivana Rogulj, Jean-Sébastien Broc, Filippos Anagnostopoulos, Tomislav Novosel, Indriany Lionggo, and Stavros Spyridakos -  say the extent of district heating is another key factor.

Countries with a high share of district heating tend to have a smoother pathway toward decarbonising their heating systems. “It is easier to replace one large gas boiler with a heat pump, biomass boiler or waste heat than to replace thousands of individual boilers with heat pumps,” they explain.

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