District heating
Sustainable district heating for housing and premises
Reliable and efficient solutions
365 days a year we make sure that our customers, living in housing or working in premises in our over 100 district heating networks, are warmed by locally produced heat. By primarily producing district heating from renewable and recycled energy sources, we utilize energy that would otherwise go to waste.
Many of our district heating networks are integrated with local industries when collaboration enables us to utilize residual products and waste heat from the customer’s production processes to create heating for the residents and companies in the localities.
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We provide district heating in over 100 networks in four different countries. Choose your country and find out more.
What is district heating?
The basic idea of district heating builds on togetherness. Instead of each house or premise having their own heat source, they all share the same local one. The heat is produced in a central heating plant, where renewable or recycled energy sources such as biomaterials, waste, or residual heat from a nearby industry are utilized to heat up water. The warm water is then transported in long pipes beneath our feet to a heat exchanger in the customer’s building after which the energy can be used in radiators or to heat the tap water. When the district heating water has cooled, it is led back to the heating plant, where it is heated again and led back into the system. On the way back, the water can be useful, for example by heating pavements so that they become ice-free. Recycling at its best.
Customer benefits of district heating
Reliable
Our district heating is as reliable as it is sustainable. Year after year, regardless of season or weather, the heat is always there, and the hot water never runs out. Should an unplanned interruption occur despite this, we will work as quickly as we can so that our customers get their heat back.
Easy
The technical equipment in the customer’s building will hold for many years, up to almost 40 years in some cases. In addition to that it requires minimal maintenance and service from the customer.
Priceworthy
Connecting to district heating is an investment with a long life. Since our heating plants are flexible and can use different fuels, depending on price and availability, the price level will remain attractive in relation to other forms of heating.
Contributing to EU and national carbon reduction targets
Let’s take Sweden as an example. Thanks to district heating, Sweden has succeeded in reducing its carbon dioxide emissions. Through the sector’s transition to renewable fuels, more efficient energy use, cogeneration, recovery of waste heat and heat from waste incineration, the entire country’s total emissions have been reduced by a fifth in two decades. Thereby contributing to EU and national carbon reduction targets.
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