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Large German cities are betting on district heating as a central technology of their future clean heat supply, two research reports have shown.
A report by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) "shows that the proportion of heat supplied via district heating networks in major cities is set to increase significantly,” the authors wrote.
The institute analysed the 72 available district heating plans from Germany’s cities with more than 100,000 residents – out of a total of 83, with the remaining 11 missing the deadline to finalise their plan by 30 June – and found that those with specific figures for district heating networks envisage a growing share of district heating in future. In more than half of these 39 cities, it will provide more than 50 percent of heat supply. The average share today is around 22 percent.
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