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Welcome to Sustainable Heating & Cooling by Sweden by Sweden. We aim to accelerate the expansion of sustainable heat networks in the UK and France by facilitating knowledge-sharing and spurring collaboration between political leaders, industry and academia. Read about the latest news and insights within sustainable heating and cooling in the UK and France here.

UK news update March 2024

London project to ship waste heat by barge using thermal batteries

Liverpool to install major heat pump in its district heating network

France news update March 2024

Uncertain if Engie will be dethroned for the mega contract to heat the city of Paris

France news update February 2024

Coriance has secured the contract for an expansive heating network that will be developed over coming years

UK news update February 2024

£3.5 million grant to more efficient heat networks

France news update January 2024

New Heating Network in the Hauts-de-Seine department is set to warm 15,000 Homes by 2028

UK news update January 2024

Wirral Council Proposes £40 Million Birkenhead Heat Network

France news update December 2023

Dalkia is taking over the reins of the district heating networks of one of France’s five biggest DHC networks

UK news update December 2023

Aberdeen's (NESS) energy from waste (EfW) facility commences full operations

France news update November 2023

SHC organized a conference together with FEDENE on the subject of carbon-neutral DHC in Sweden and France

UK news update November 2023

District Heating to supply regeneration project in Edinburgh

France news update October 2023

Paris-Le Bourget airport soon to be heated by geothermal energy

UK news update October 2023

The National Infrastructure Commission: better ways to heat homes than hydrogen

UK news update September 2023

Consortium acquires energy company for £260 million

France news update September 2023

Heat pumps and electricity price control in the limelight of the French Government’s recent plans to accelerate the green transition

UK news update August 2023

Empowering Communities: UK’s Ambitious £10 Million Energy Initiative

France news update August 2023

Sipperec and Engie to expand DHC networks in three Parisian suburbs by 2025

France news update July 2023

Caen-la-Mer's DHC network to be extended by almost 70 kilometres

UK news update July 2023

Unleashing London's Green Future: The Mayor's Green Finance Fund

France news update June 2023

La Caisse des Dépôts and Vauban Infrastructures Partners have entered exclusive negotiations to acquire French DHC operator Coriance

UK news update June 2023

Unleashing London's Green Future: The Mayor's Green Finance Fund

France news update May 2023

2 million EUR of European funds will be directed to district heating in Strasbourg-Kehl

UK news update May 2023

Geothermal Heat Network in the Southwest receives £22m

France news update April 2023

The Lille metropolitan area is intensifying their ambitions to promote district heating

UK news update April 2023

Pinnacle Power announces new partnership for £1bn of new UK heat networks  

France news update March 2023

French visit to Swedish biomass plant

UK news update March 2023

Thousands of London homes to be decarbonised in new retrofit-project 

France news update February 2023

Euroheat & Power Webinar: Renewable heat versus energy crisis - a French way

UK news update February 2023

Government scheme to increase energy efficiency of Heat Networks

France news update January 2023

French delegation to Stockholm

UK news update January 2023

£1 billion Private-Public-Partnership to help decarbonising Bristol

France news update December 2022

A new heat network in Clermont-Ferrand (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes)

UK news update December 2022

London energy-from-waste plant upgrades to increase green energy supply

UK news update November 2022

Former coal mine could act as renewable energy source to heat local homes and businesses

France news update November 2022

Conference on Decarbonization through sustainable heating and cooling at the Swedish Embassy in Paris

UK news update October 2022

New heat network project awarded £20 million in capital round

France news update October 2022

The “Athletes Village” outside of Paris is getting a new heating and cooling network

France news update September 2022

The town of Trappes (Île-de-France) is carrying out a study aiming to create a heating network

UK news update September 2022

New heat network projects awarded £54 million in government funding round

UK news update June 2022

UK government to create central heat network authority responsible for development of heat networks

France news update June 2022

The city of Compiègne has invested in a biomass boiler to reach city objectives to improve their green energy mix

France news update May 2022

The multisport complex of Monplaisir in Angers is opening and will be connected to the local heating network

UK news update May 2022

Local authorities lack confidence in meeting net-zero targets

UK news update April 2022

Calls are being made to protect residents on heat networks as energy bills increase

France news update April 2022

Heat network extension in Nantes will include a hospital and the HQ of Semitan

UK news update March 2022

Vattenfall and Ameresco collaborates on Bristol City Leap project to deliver large-scale heat network

France news update March 2022

Local community is concerned about a new biomass installation in Toulouse

France: Biomass Market Insights

A priority for French district heating networks with interesting business opportunities for Swedish companies

France news update February 2022

Reims will invest in an incinerator for wood waste to make use of locally sourced wood resources

UK news update February 2022

New £300 million fund established to support the transformation of Scotland’s heating systems

France news update January 2022

The city of Saint-Romain-Lachalm has invested in a new district heating network

UK news update January 2022

Vattenfall intends to offer high-temperature heat pumps to the UK market

China news update November 2021

New national data details the heating landscape in China

UK news update November 2021

Ten UK cities made it to a list of the world’s ‘Climate A-listers’

France news update November 2021

Idex district heating network in Nice has inaugurated a geothermal power plant

UK news update October 2021

The UK Government publishes long-awaited ‘Net-Zero Strategy’ and ‘Heat and Buildings Strategy’

France news update October 2021

A ninth district heating network of the Saint-Etienne Métropole has now been inaugurated

UK news update September 2021

Vattenfall has announced plans to develop the largest low-carbon heat network in the UK

France news update September 2021

100 million EUR will be invested to finance heat network renovation and extension

China news update August 2021

The National Energy Administration states the area of geothermal heating and cooling will double

France news update August 2021

The first fifth generation district heating and cooling network is under development

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