HeatNet NWE
Promoting 4th Generation District Heating and Cooling across North-West Europe.
About the project
HeatNet NWE was a €11.5m project promoting the roll-out of the most advanced form of district heating (DH), known as 4th Generation District Heating and Cooling, across North-West Europe.
HeatNet NWE was a €11.5m INTERREG North-West Europe project promoting the roll-out of the most advanced form of district heating, known as 4th Generation District Heating and Cooling, across North-West Europe.
4th Generation District Heating and Cooling integrates heat, electricity and energy storage to achieve an overall smart energy system, combining high energy efficiency, high shares of renewable energy and waste heat resources.
HeatNet NWE addressed the challenge of reducing CO2 emissions in North-West Europe by creating an integrated transnational approach to the supply of renewable and low carbon heat (including waste heat) to residential and commercial buildings, developed and tested in local district heating and cooling (DHC) networks in Ireland, the UK, Belgium, France, and the Netherlands.
In North, East and Central Europe, DHC supplies up to 50% of heat demand compared to just 2-7% in North-West Europe. DHC facilitates energy efficiency, fewer CO2 emissions and a greener economy. The overall objective was to introduce and demonstrate 4th Generation DHC (4DHC) in NWE. This is a low-temperature distribution system to minimise heat loss, integrated energy storage and supply to multiple low energy buildings.
The project consisted of 13 partners across 5 countries and resulted in a saving of over 15,000 tonnes of CO2 each year by the end of the project.
Codema’s role
- Lead partner – in charge of the day-to-day project management, financial management and overseeing the communications within the project
- Work package leader for long-term impact – creation of business cases, transition roadmaps and promotion of 4DHC
- Input into the Evaluation Work Package
- Input into developing the HeatNet Model, which will help municipalities begin implementing 4DHC projects
- Supporting South Dublin County Council in developing Dublin’s first large-scale public district heating network, with an initial project connecting the Council’s headquarters at County Hall, TUD Tallaght and utilising waste heat from an Amazon data centre The district heating system will save South Dublin County Council up to 1,736 tonnes of CO2 per year.
Project aims
Project team
Declan McCormac
Executive Manager - Project Funding and Facilitation
Declan McCormac
Executive Manager - Project Funding and Facilitation
Joe Hayden
Executive Manager - Project Implementation
Joe Hayden
Executive Manager - Project Implementation
John O’Shea
Senior Energy Systems Analyst / Heat and Electricity Lead
John O’Shea
Senior Energy Systems Analyst / Heat and Electricity Lead
Katia Tikhoniouk
Communications and Project Manager
Katia Tikhoniouk
Communications and Project Manager
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