As cities race to cut emissions and reduce energy demand, Concordia’s Next-Generation Cities Institute (NGCI) has won an international competition to develop new District Energy (DE) Market Development Guidelines. District energy networks distribute heating or cooling across groups of buildings or entire neighbourhoods by drawing on clean sources such as geothermal heat, waste heat from industry or data centres and solar thermal energy.
Launched by the International Energy Agency’s Technology Collaboration Programme on District Heating and Cooling, the project will provide governments and planners with guidance as they build and expand district energy systems, helping steer the future of sustainable urban energy.
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