District Heating
Ørsted launches landmark CCS project in Denmark
Danish renewables powerhouse Ørsted has won a 20-year contract from the Danish Energy Agency for its "Ørsted Kalundborg Hub" carbon…
Opinion: let’s make clean heating a reality for low-income households
The cost of heating leaves many European households feeling burnt. Three-quarters of our heat is still supplied by expensive fossil…
Should the EU count wood as a renewable fuel? Opinions are divided.
As EU lawmakers return to Brussels after the New Year holiday, they are prepping for a major battle over a…
Opinion: CEE countries must not spend EU money to finance natural gas in district heating
As the EU desperately tries to find ways to keep hundreds of millions of Europeans warm this winter without the…
Ditching gas boilers for heat pumps will take EU “well beyond next winter”
As part of its REPowerEU proposal to end Russian fossil fuel imports, the European Commission announced an increase in its…
UK homes should prioritise heat pumps over hydrogen
The UK government should prioritise expanding existing low-carbon heating solutions – including heat pumps, energy efficiency improvements and heat networks…
Data centres, demand response and decarbonising the cloud
"People often ask me why data centres use so much energy,” says Tor Björn Minde from the state-owned Research Institutes…
How Manchester is planning to get to net zero by 2038
What Manchester does today, the rest of the world does tomorrow. This was the claim made by British Prime Minister…
Everything but the (forest) sink
The EU has led the way in including the burning of “sustainable” wood in renewable energy goals. However, as global…
China’s dirty district heating is getting cleaner
China has long had the ignominy of being both the world's largest user of district heating, and the dirtiest. Decades…