Local Best Practices of Secure and Low-Carbon Heat: <br>CHP as a Pathway to 2030

CHP using different fuels represents the backbone of today’s efficient District Heating and Cooling systems. In combination with diverse heat sources (e.g. biomass, solar thermal, geothermal, waste to energy, waste heat from industries etc.) it ensures the secure and low-carbon supply of heat for citizens all over Europe.

Through the use of CHP Europe’s energy security is increased and the emissions of CO2 and other air pollutants are substantially reduced.

Due to its flexibility CHP is an ideal supplement for further renewable growth. The flexibility of CHP installations is further increased by the development of integrated storage systems. In a system increasingly shaped by erratic renewable generation CHP represents an urgently required flexible partner to renewables.

The event will provide best practice examples from Austria on efficient, renewable and low-carbon heat supply. The current challenges and drivers for high-efficient CHP and its role in the future energy system will be discussed and presented.

Moderator: Sonja van Renssen Journalist, Energy Post

This session is organised as part of the European Commission’s conference HEATING AND COOLING in the European Energy Transition.