The European capital goes green with district heating - Celsius Initiative
- Alice Dupuy
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The “Eurométropole de Strasbourg” (Greater Strasbourg) aims to be at the forefront of innovative cities in terms of Energy Transition. The European Capital aims to achieve a 100% renewable energy supply by 2050. This commitment is both political, voted unanimously by the Council of the Eurométropole de Strasbourg in 2017, and technical, implemented through the recent drafting of a 2050 Energy Roadmap. This document highlights the three cornerstones for Strasbourg’s energy transition: curbing energy consumption across all sectors, boosting local renewable energy production and enhancing district heating systems.
The road to renewables
Strasbourg’s 2050 Energy Roadmap: district heating targets
Strasbourg’s 2050 Energy Roadmap plans for 55% of energy requirements to be met by locally produced renewables. This ambitious target will require a massive deployment of all available renewable energy sources, namely biomass, deep geothermal, solar thermal, photovoltaics, hydro power, biogas, ground-sourced heat pumps and waste heat recovery.
Although all of these proposed technologies will have an important role to play in the overall strategy, some (...) Read more
