In this article, we describe the ambitions, considerations, and choices of five Dutch project teams working within the national Natural Gas-Free District pilot Programme (PAW) to realise low temperature district heating. In doing so, we link to the principles of 5th generation district heating as developed in the D2Grids project.

Since 2018, the Dutch central government's "Programma Aardgasvrije Wijken (PAW)" programme has been subsidising dozens of pilot projects where natural gas-free districts are being realised. A first tranche of 27 pilot projects started in 2018. In 2020, 23 new pilot projects were added. The third tranche, from 2021, consists of 16 pilot projects. Whereas in the first tranche the emphasis was on medium temperature (MT) and high temperature (HT) grids, we see that in (...)

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