The Vattenfall combined heat and power plant in Berlin-Lichterfelde supplies around 100,000 households with district heating. It runs on natural gas.
(Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa)
Berlin Since the prices for gas and heating oil have more than doubled, many property owners want to convert their heating systems to renewable energies as quickly as possible. This is not always easy in apartment buildings in large cities: air heat pumps are rather unsuitable; ground-coupled systems require space that an inner courtyard does not necessarily have.
No house in Germany can be supplied with solar thermal energy alone. Biomass heating is also an option – if wood fuel can be stored sufficiently and there is someone who regularly disposes of the ash. If biomass is also ruled out, one option remains: district heating.
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