2023-06-25 21:30:49
The engineer Christoph Zeis, 58, is the managing director of the municipal energy company EDG in Nieder-Olm near Mainz, which supplies around 1,600 customers in Rheinhessen with district heating. Image: Maximilian von Lachner
District heating can be a cost-effective alternative to heat pumps. But the reservations of homeowners are often great. A man from the practice reports.
Mr. Zeis, you are the head of an energy supplier in a rural area. Do you think it’s a good idea that the federal government now wants to push the expansion of district heating as an alternative to heat pumps?
Marcus Theurer
Editor in the economy of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper.
District heating is a sensible alternative in the core areas of cities and communities. District heating networks can be built with a wide range of technologies, for example on the basis of combined heat and power generation. In local combined heat and power plants, heat is then produced for the connected buildings and electricity at the same time. This is unmatched in terms of efficiency.
District heating is mainly available in large, densely populated cities. Does it also work in the country?
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