On global scale politicians, businesses and consumers are
increasing their focus on energy consumption, supply and
security of supply. While it is obvious that the industrialised
world cannot function without consumption of energy there is now
evidence that the emissions of CO2 into the air will potentially
lead to global warming. Hence, focus is now directed towards the
challenge of an increased or flat demand for energy while at the
same time lowering CO2 emissions. In a global business-as-usual
scenario where nothing is done to mitigate CO2 emissions, it is
estimated that the CO2 emissions will increase by 50 % from 2002
to 2030. Based on years of experience in many countries,
especially the Scandinavian ones, it is clear that District
Heating and District Cooling are economically advantageous,
extremely reliable and - perhaps most importantly -
environmentally safer than other solutions being employed today.
Combined heat and power generation (CHP) is actually the single
biggest solution to the 2020 EU ta