Managed by the UEM company, the district heating network in the city of Metz (Lorraine) is one of the largest in France. Today – since the Metz-East and Metz-Cité networks were joined together in 2007 – the network is 93 ...
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Veolia helping transform waste in London
Doing more with less, this could be the motto of the London Borough of Southwark, where waste is an energy resource thus helping to both reduce the amount of waste and increase the recycling rate! Veolia, the French transnational ...
Gothenburg: innovative and inspirational heating network
After reviewing some district heating networks in France (Auxerre or Montpellier for example) and in Europe (Helsinki), DHC News takes you to the North of Europe, to Gothenburg, to discover a heating network powered primarily by energy from incineration of ...
Lyon’s heating network gets top marks
The Lyon-Villeurbanne district heating and cooling network has supplied more than 45,000 homes since its inception in 1971. The third biggest heating network in France by size, it relies primarily on the use of renewable energy and heat recovery. ...
Presenting Nordic Efficiency in Paris
Danfoss is one of the leading players in district energy solutions that will present their know-how and future smart technologies at the Nordic Efficiency event in Paris next week. The company claims that their solutions help increase energy efficiency in ...
Environmental certification: what did we learn from the 2015 barometer
In France as in Europe, there are many environmental certifications. They certainly concern heating networks, but also – and especially – the construction sector as a whole. With the passing of time and the growing importance of energy concerns, these ...
District heating network wins EHPA award
The European Heat Pump Association (EHPA) has awarded the fifth edition of its internationally coveted Heat Pump City of the Year prize. This year’s ceremony saw Calefa Oy win the award for a project in Mäntsälä, Finland. The clearly defined ...
Social media: August 2015’s top stories
Each month, DHC News selects the tweets that have made the news in the heating and cooling network industry over the previous month. And if August is synonymous with idleness for some, it remains a very busy and active period ...
Paris, model city
CPCU, CLIMESPACE, Paris Smart City 2050: These three names make the French capital a modern metropolis and an international reference point in heating and cooling networks. How do these three entities work? What technologies are used? What power do they ...
Innovative networks in Helsinki
We have previously looked at the district heating networks in Brest and Auxerre in France, now it is time to discover the heating and cooling networks in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. Helsinki in brief Helsinki is the capital ...