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Heat Roadmap Europe: Heat distribution costs
Description
This analysis (2019) elaborates further the concept of physical and economic suitability for district heating in EU28 by an aggregation regarding key dimensions such as land areas, populations, heat demands, and investment volumes. This aggregation is based on a resolution on hectare level by slicing the total land area into 437 million pieces. Results show that heat demands in buildings are present in 9% of the land area. Because of high concentrations in towns and cities, 78% of the total heat demand in buildings originate from dense urban areas that constitute 1.4% of the total land area and 70% of the population. Due to these high heat densities above 50 MJ/m2 per year, the paper evaluates a setting where district heating is individually expanded in each member state for reaching a common 50% heat market proportion in EU28 at lowest cost.
Authors: Urban Persson (Halmstad University), Eva Wiechers (Europa-Universität Flensburg), Bernd Möller (Europa-Universität Flensburg / Aalborg University), Sven Werner (Halmstad University)
Key works: district heating, distribution capital cost, heat density, land use, geographical information systems, European Union
Key Topics
- Statistics and market analysis
Type of Content
- Scientific article