Heat & Cold in practice case study collection
Heating and cooling (H&C) accounts for about half of Europe’s total energy needs with 75% still dependent on fossil fuels. Thus, rapid and significant change is needed to reach the EU 2050 goals and action must be taken at local level involving a variety of stakeholders.
On top of emissions reduction, H&C planning focuses on other challenges of European cities like energy, poverty, energy efficiency, dependency on fossil fuels and stability. However, cities often lack the resources or tools to bring this planning forward.
The aim of the Act!onHeat project is to accelerate the use of strategic heating and cooling planning in cities and regions throughout Europe. The project identified the success factors of strong and efficient existing heating and cooling plans and developed a workflow for strategic H&C planning based on existing open-source tools, Hotmaps and THERMOS.
The present set of case studies aims to showcase some of the supported projects in Act!onHeat's Support Facility, which engaged local governments and supported several municipalities to:
➔ Start, continue, or improve upon their strategic heating and cooling planning
➔ Develop pre-feasibility studies for individual heating and cooling projects
This document is directed to local and regional governments, city planners, energy agencies, utilities and other organisations involved in local H&C planning. The goal is to inspire other municipalities and organisations to advance on their H&C journey and follow similar steps to the ones showed in these case studies.
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