The future of District Heating
District Heating is rapidly expanding in southern Europe and China. Solar energy can be used to reduce the cost of fuel and the CO2 emissions.
In Sweden, there are close to 600 heating networks that burn biofuel be about 40 also fired with garbage and about 20 in part uses industrial residual heat. Many of the networks are on rural areas and supplies smaller towns with heat. Just over 100 of the heating networks have cogeneration and produce both electricity and heat.
Heating plants that burn biofuel are often run on low loads in summer, sometimes as low as 10% of the boiler max effect. It provides low efficiency, down to 50% and difficult operating conditions. Other networks close the boiler in the summer and burns bio-oil or pellets when the load is low.
In the future, competition for biofuels will create major problems for the Swedish district heating networks as in high degree depends on cheap chips and pellets.
Heating plants that burn biofuel are often run on low loads in summer, sometimes as low as 10% of the boiler max effect. It provides low efficiency, down to 50% and difficult operating conditions. Other networks close the boiler in the summer and burns bio-oil or pellets when the load is low.
In the future, competition for biofuels will create major problems for the Swedish district heating networks as in high degree depends on cheap chips and pellets.
Absolicon is building Europe's largest solar thermal field for District Heating with concentrating solar collectors
About the solar energy project
The District Heating of the future uses Solar Heat to produce their hot water. With funding from The Swedish Energy Agency is building a pilot plant for Absolicon about 1.5 GW in Härnösand which will deliver one million kWh of heat into the District Heating network every year.
The project will also disseminate information and plan for a larger solar heating plant in Härnösand to man should be able to stop burning fuels in the summer. The project runs from May 2020 to December 2023.
The project will also disseminate information and plan for a larger solar heating plant in Härnösand to man should be able to stop burning fuels in the summer. The project runs from May 2020 to December 2023.
Why should your city buy a new boiler for hundreds of millions when you can switch to Solar Thermal Heating?
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