District heating
District heating has many economic and environmental benefits. It is a flexible system that can both make use of waste heat and manage variations in electricity production and usage.
Flexible, fossil-free heating systems of the future
District heating is an efficient method for large-scale heating, that has both economic and environmental benefits. Through systems of pipes, heat from heating plants and cogeneration plants is distributed to large areas of residential housing and commercial properties. Outside Sweden, it is most common that the generated heat comes from the combustion of fossil fuels, but the climate crisis and increased energy demand have increasingly shifted focus to fossil-free fuel sources.
More efficient energy use, and new solutions
A large proportion of Sweden's residential and commercial properties are heated by fossil-free district heating, which has many economic and environmental advantages. IVL works with several project in the area of district heating, in order to make the current use more efficient, and to find new and sustainable ways to develop the district heating system.
Our experts provide assistance to the energy sector by way of systems analyses, sustainability assessment and climate calculations, in order to develop different system solutions.
Examples of IVL's work with district heating
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Optimized heat for areas with low-energy buildings
IIn the OptiHeat-LEB project four main heating technologies in areas with low-energy buildings (LEB)s were investigated and their impacts on costs an...
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So What develops tools to take advantage of unutilized heat and cooling flows
Techniques that exploit industrial residual heat and residual cooling are well developed, but in a pan-European perspective, only a fraction of the a...
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ReUseHeat: Recovering urban excess heat
There is enough waste energy produced in the EU to heat the EU’s entire building stock. However, despite of this huge potential, only a restricted nu...
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Flexi-Sync
Flexi-Sync (Flexible energy system integration using concept development, demonstration and replication) aims to optimize the flexibility in the dist...
Book navigates the district heating technologies of the future
Reduced temperatures in buildings' heating systems can deliver several environmental benefits. In a book published in 2021, IVL presents the principal drivers for low-temperature district heating.
