Energy group Utilitas has connected boiler houses in the border towns of Valga and Valka with a 1.6-kilometer pipeline — the first cross-border district heating link in Europe.
The towns of in southern Estonia Valga and Valka in northern Latvia are split in half by the border. Local authorities have been working under the "two countries, one city" concept for several years.
When Utilitas acquired a combined heat and power plant in Valka, just across the Estonian border, in March last year, the group gained control over the heat supply for both border towns, as it already owned the Valga boiler house.
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