One Polish city’s heating system goes fully green
Source：www.wnp.pl/
From：Taiwan Trade Center, Warsaw
Update Time：2024/06/13
The new heating plant, called the Technology Demonstrator, will heat and supply hot water to most of the buildings in the Astronomów Housing Estate in Lidzbark Warmiński, a small city in the northern part of Poland. The total usable area of all residential premises there is over 28,000 square meters, and the heating system will be powered by energy 100% from renewable sources, said Magdalena Bezulska, president of Veolia term, part of the Veolia Group in Poland.
"We plan to put into operation the Heat Plant of the Future, i.e. an installation using highly efficient heat pump systems, photovoltaic installations and a heat storage system," Bezulska told WNP.PL, adding that the developed technology is scalable and adapted to the needs of heating modernization throughout Poland.
Veolia term is carrying out investments in several cities that allow it to move away from coal and use renewable energy sources, and the installation in Lidzbark Warmiński is an important element of the strategy aimed at decarbonizing heating systems, which involves Veolia completely abandoning coal combustion and achieving climate neutrality by 2050.
In the cities where companies from the Veolia term group operate, energy-efficient and at the same time environmentally friendly heating installations are being built, and one of them is the Heat Plant of the Future.
Veolia in Poland increases the efficiency of local heating systems while reducing coal burning. This is the answer to current climate challenges. The implementation of this assumption ensured almost complete decarbonization of the heating installation, according to the company.
In the spring of 2021, the National Center for Research and Development (NCBiR) announced the project "Heat Plant of the Future," i.e. a heating system from renewable energy sources, co-financed by European Funds under the Smart Growth Operational Program. Its goal was to develop an effective way to modernize a conventional heating plant: coal, gas or biomass, so that the share of renewable energy sources exceeds 80% without burning biomass.
The Technology Demonstrator was built within 18 months. It is said to be able to be used in other heating systems up to an installed thermal power of 50MWt and be adapted to the needs of modernization of district heating systems throughout Poland. The scale can be expanded by adding more devices.
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