On 2nd November 2022, was held the webinar co-organised by Celsius Initiative and D2Grids, whose objective was to explore the possible synergies between renewable electricity and innovative district heating and cooling grids.
While only 19.1% of the EU's building and industrial energy is supplied by renewable sources, the heating and cooling sector accounts for 50%, 5GDHC grids mainly relying on heat recovery and renewable and local energy sources have a key role to play in energy transition.
The webinar was divided into four parts: first, Herman Eijdems, Mijnwater's Innovation Director, reminded about 5GDHC concept, which D2Grids aims to promote in North-West Europe. Mathilde Henry then explained how solar energy, and in particular PV, can be used in these heating and cooling rids. A roundtable implying representatives of the pilot sites experimenting this kind of project had the opportunity to tell us more about their plans. Finally, Nina Jacobsson Stålheim presented the concrete case of Gothenburg city in Sweden and its use of solar electricity and their heating and cooling grids.
In this article, you will discover the key information of the webinar, as well as its video replay and the PowerPoint used by speakers.
