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According to a study by the University of Aalborg, district heating networks will need to supply around 48 percent of the EU’s heat demand by 2050 in order to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement. Heat suppliers in such networks often include fired power plants and combined heat and power units. However, recovering energy from lake or seawater has not been considered so often so far. These resources have an enormous potential for clean, local, and inexhaustible energy.
How large a role lake, river, and seawater will play in the expansion of Europe’s district heating networks thus remains to be seen. What is certain, however, is that by 2026, 17 buildings in Les Sables d’Olonne, including the swimming pool, convention center, town hall, Collège Pierre Mauger, the horticultural school, and the Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte Croix, will be heated with seawater.
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