Policy measures to support solar district heating. Presented in the DHC+ Technology Platform Steering Committee in Helsinki on September 25, 2018.

1. Solar District Heating:
Good measures for policies
and market deployment
in selected European Regions
Riccardo Battisti, Ambiente Italia srl
Steering Committee of the DHC+ Technology Platform
Helsinki, September 25th, 2018

2. INTRODUCTION
Regional / Local Authorities do have a role
in promoting ‘modern’ (4th generation)
district heating
9 Regional Governments from 7 countries
are directly involved in SDHp2m
They developed concrete tools and
measures to overcome key barriers:
1. Financing & economics
2. Finding available areas
3. Knowledge & awareness
4. Competition with other energy sources
@RiccardoBatt

3. 1. FINANCING & ECONOMICS
Thuringia – Favourable support framework
Green Invest: Up to 80% of the
consultancy and feasibility for pilot
projects (max 200,000 €), also SDH
Solar Invest:
Up to 25% of the investment cost
(40% for citizen cooperatives)
Solar fraction >60% and seasonal
storages
Revision planned for increasing
the focus on heat
@RiccardoBatt

4. 1. FINANCING & ECONOMICS
Thuringia – Favourable support framework
Klima Invest:
For Municipalities
Advice services & training (up to 100%)
7,500 € ‘Starter package’ supported at 100%
Max 200,000 €
New programme:
Regional Ministry of Infrastructures and agriculture
DH in rural areas (up to 10,000 inhabitants)
65% for Municipalities
35% for companies
@RiccardoBatt

5. 2. FINDING AVAILABLE AREAS
Hamburg – Best practices & policy
recommendations
Best practice guide with
examples:
Roof areas (commercial /
industrial)
Infrastructures (e.g. sewage
water basins)
Polluted / contaminated areas
Areas along traffic routes (e.g.
noise barriers)
Agricultural areas (double
use)
@RiccardoBatt

6. @RiccardoBatt
2. FINDING AVAILABLE AREAS
Hamburg – Best practices & policy
recommendations

7. Policy recommendations on how to facilitate the
implementations of such examples, e.g.
Building codes obliging developers of large commercial
buildings to allow the future use of solar thermal)
Simplification of legal procedures to use polluted or
contaminated areas
Secure agricultural land for SDH close to DH networks
(inclusion in the regional development plans)
Styria also is working on spatial planning at local level
(with Municipalities) to secure land for SDH
@RiccardoBatt
2. FINDING AVAILABLE AREAS
Hamburg – Best practices & policy
recommendations

8. 3. KNOWLEDGE & AWARENESS
Thuringia – ‘Solar Calculator’
@RiccardoBatt
Web-based software
Yield and economic calculation
PV and solar thermal
Roof and ground-mounted

9. 3. KNOWLEDGE & AWARENESS
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes – SDH video
Specific long (…) video on SDH
Main targets are Local Authorities and Regional Councils
for replication of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes policy
Direct testimonies of politicians
Cost of 15,000 €
@RiccardoBatt

10. Also technical explanations
With English subtitles
Shorter version as a teaser
(for social media promotion)
@RiccardoBatt
3. KNOWLEDGE & AWARENESS
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes – SDH video

11. 3. KNOWLEDGE & AWARENESS
Styria – Database of biomass district heating
More than 600 biomass DH networks (30 including solar)
Questionnaire sent to more than 200 utilities in Sep 2017
@RiccardoBatt

12. Operators were offered a free 2-
days advisory service (through
technical partners)
Financed by the SDHp2m project
and by the Styrian Government
(2,000 € each)
Results expected soon (12 new
plants could be in the pipeline,
average of 200 m2)
Also related to ‘competition with
other energy sources’
@RiccardoBatt
3. KNOWLEDGE & AWARENESS
Styria – Database of biomass district heating

13. 4. COMPETITION WITH OTHER ENERGY SOURCES
Veneto – Cooperation with biomass association
Common dissemination workshops
Article on AIEL newsletter
Feasibility study for solar integration into a
biomass DH
Inclusion of SDH in AIEL training for
professionals
Common lobbying towards Regions
@RiccardoBatt

14. Not competition…
But rather alliance
Burning biomass in summer just
does not make sense.
We should use solar thermal instead!
Valter Francescato,
AIEL Technical Director
@RiccardoBatt
4. COMPETITION WITH OTHER ENERGY SOURCES
Veneto – Cooperation with biomass association

15. CONCLUSIONS (=INTRODUCTION)
Regional / Local Authorities do have a role
in promoting ‘modern’ 4th generation
district heating
9 Regional Governments from 7
countriesare directly involved in the
SDHp2m project
They developed tools / measures to
overcome key barriers:
1. Financing/economics
2. Areas
3. Knowledge/awareness
4. Competition with other sources
@RiccardoBatt

16. POLICY MAKERS AS SDH ‘SUPPORTERS’
@RiccardoBatt

17. Email: riccardo.battisti@ambienteitalia.it
https://it.linkedin.com/in/riccardobattisti
@RiccardoBatt
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18. Website: www.ambienteitalia.it
www.linkedin.com/company/ambiente-italia-srl
Facebook: Ambiente Italia S.r.l.
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