The project RES-DHC – Transformation of existing district heating and cooling to higher shares of renewable energy sources.
RES-DHC stands for a wider introduction of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in the District Heating and Cooling (DHC) sector. The RES-DHC project addresses the manifold market uptake challenges related to the transformation of DHC systems to higher shares of RES.
RES-DHC stands for a wider introduction of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in the District Heating
and Cooling (DHC) sector. The RES-DHC project addresses the manifold market uptake challenges
related to the transformation of DHC systems to higher shares of RES.
The main objective of the RES-DHC project is to support the transformation of existing urban
DHC systems to RES in six participating regions and thereby to derive – from these practical
cases – technical and organizational solutions for such transformation processes.
A vertical pillar of the project is a close-to-market implementation process of concrete actions and measures by regional stakeholder consortia in the six regions (in AT, CH, DE, FR, IT and PL). The phases of this implementation process are 1) strategy and action planning based on local stakeholder consultation 2) an implementation phase starting already at an early stage of the project including capacity building, legal framework improvements, market support, and triggering investments in RES DHC. Technical enablers, along with RES, are also sector coupling and the use of low grade heat sources.
A key horizontal beam of the project is to organize and give transnational support to the regional stakeholder consortia. This support is provided by an international team (from Belgium and Denmark) with specific and complementary expertise and competences and coordinated by Danish experts who are also project partners. The specific actions of the RES-DHC project meet the market uptake challenges to a great extent, e.g. introduction of RES at large scale, stakeholder engagement, assessment of legal and political frameworks and of the environmental, economic and social impact of RES DHC solutions.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program
