Energy Transition
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The Danish pilot project ‘demonstrates that large-scale seawater heat pumps utilizing the non-toxic natural refrigerant CO2 are technically possible and economically feasible,’ according to the IEA Technology Collaboration Programme on Heat Pumping Technologies.
As Denmark has extensive district heating networks, it believes that it will generate half of its heat by way of electricity by 2035. District heating concepts are also seen as a key measure for decarbonizing Germany’s heating sector, which the previous government of Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals planned to facilitate by adding 100,000 households a year to district heat networks. The new government, led by the Christian Democrats, agrees that Germany should have more district heating but does not specific a per year figure.
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