Industry
News
Successful bidders for the funding
include projects in Hackney, London;
Greenwich, London; Rowner, Gosport;
Hanham Hall, South Gloucestershire; Manton
and Reynolds Towers, Birmingham; Wood
End, Henley Green and Manor Farm estates,
Coventry; and Yarn Street, Aire Valley in
Leeds. Their projects range from connecting
multistory buildings to a new biomass energy
system to building a community energy
center that will use ground source heat
pump technology.
E.ON Inaugurates New
Plant in Malmö
In August, E.ON opened its new state-of-the-art combined heat and power plant
in Malmö, Sweden. The 440 MW gas-fired
plant, Öresundsverket, has an efficiency as
high as 90 percent at full cogeneration. It
will produce 3 billion k Wh of electricity for
the southern Swedish market and 1 billion
k Wh of district heat for Malmö, meeting
40 percent of the city’s heating needs. The
plant’s electricity production will replace
older coal-fired generation, thereby reducing
emissions of carbon dioxide by 1 million
tons per year.
The total investment figure for the
project was 300 million euros ($437 million),
IEA Publishes New District
Energy Brochure
The International Energy Agency has
issued a new brochure overviewing its
Implementing Agreement on District Heating
and Cooling (IEA-DHC) – a research and
development program to advance the
application of district heating and cooling
and combined heat and power technologies.
Titled “Bringing Countries Together to
Research, Innovate and Grow District
Heating and Cooling, Including CHP,” the
brochure also outlines the IEA-DHC’s
‘Annex IX’ research projects conducted in
the three-year period between May 2008
and May 2011. The brochure may be
downloaded at www.iea-dhc.org.
Germany’s Cartel
Office Examines
District Heating Sector
Germany’s Federal Cartel Office, the
Bundeskartellamt, announced Sept. 14
that it has launched an inquiry into the
competitiveness of the country’s district
heating sector. The office, which has
requested information from 30 district
heating suppliers, says its aim is to create
more transparency in price and structure
in the district heating markets.
The cartel office has initiated the inquiry
because district heating suppliers have a
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