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Vienna shows the way towards a fossil free building stock with climate protection areas
Climate protection areas are showing to be an efficient tool to wean Vienna’s building stock from fossil fuel. From now on, any new buildings in these areas must be supplied with renewable energy or district heating.
Webinar: Financial instruments and success cases
This webinar provided a European perspective on financial investment, from EU’s Urban Agenda Energy Transition Partnership to success cases and transparent green bonds to minimize the risks.
Smart integrated energy project joins the Celsius Initiative
The Horizon 2020 project FlexiGrid joins the Celsius Initiative, benefiting from the great network of integrated energy stakeholders.
Looking at Financing – success stories, challenges and solutions
During the May 2020 Celsius Talk will discuss the barriers cities encounter when looking to finance sustainable energy efficient projects, such as…
Bankability of urban excess heat recovery investments
We summarize some key points from RINA’s analysis of the bankability of urban excess heat recovery investments (from the H2020 Reuseheat project).
Gothenburg, a pioneer in green bonds
This article provides a short introduction to green bonds, using the first city in the world to use green bonds (Gothenburg) as an example.
Positive Energy Districts and Neighbourhoods Call for Proposals
Positive Energy Districts and Neighbourhoods may serve as a crucial contribution to achieve climate and energy targets. This call focuses on exchange of experience between ambitions and initiatives already going on.
European City Facility launches call for proposals
The European City Facility (EUCF) will launch its first call for proposals. All municipalities (local authorities) and their groupings from the EU-27 and UK are encouraged to apply to get support in developing an investment concept and accelerate the implementation of their energy and climate action plans.
IRENA’s Outlook Shows Path for Resilient Economies
The Global Renewables Outlook shows the path to create a sustainable future energy system. This flagship report highlights climate-safe investment options until 2050, the policy framework needed for the transition and the challenges faced by different regions.
Webinar: Low temperature district heating
Low temperature district heating can prove to be an important part in also keeping the globe’s temperature low. This webinar presents some of the opportunities and challenges cities may encounter in their endeavour towards a sustainable and efficient low temperature district heating systems.
Public Consultations for Spring and Summer 2020
In the upcoming weeks and months, a number of public consultations are scheduled with relevance for the Celsius cities. While we will reply to these…
Automated planning and design tool for DH networks
Speed up the planning process and build a solid business case with Comsof Heat, an automated planning and design tool for district heating…
Looking for best practices in efficient DHC
The Directorate-General for Energy of the European Commission (DG ENER) has awarded an ambitious study which will provide a thorough, in-depth…
Forerunner groups helping cities implement solutions
Cities face many difficulties in their ambition to cut carbon emissions through the optimisation of heating and cooling solutions. The challenges…
Bunhill 2 Energy Centre is now up and running!
Waste heat from the London Underground network is now capable of providing heating and hot water to more than 1,350 homes, a school and two leisure…
Sustainable reformation for a growing population
Better aware end-users, more heat-recycling and more biofuel, are required steps for Gothenburg to become a fossil-free city, especially with the…
Why should we waste freely available heat?
ReUseHeat offers free pre-feasibility studies on urban waste heat recovery!
A new era for heating in Croatia
Zagreb has started to install large-scale solar collectors as well as geothermal energy.