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A coal boiler was replaced a year ago in Salamanca city (Castilla y Leon Region, Spain). The old one was a centralized coal boiler that was near the end of its lifetime. It was replaced by a biomass boiler, centralized as well, since it was installed on a residential building with many elders

The heating system in this renovated duplex uses a small hydro-stove that works with pellets. The system provides the house with 14 kW of space heating power and it has a 200-l. storage double coil tank for domestic hot water that works combined with two solar thermal panels.

A residential building located in the centre of Oviedo has gotten its boiler room replaced with a biomass heating system with pellets. The old system worked with diesel and was more than 30 years old, so the reasons to change the system were achieving higher energy efficiency and emitting less CO2.

A new built single-family home has chosen for the heating system an ÖkoFEN pellet boiler which uses condensation technology with 14 kW of thermal power.

The main activity of the company Energetika Maribor is the production and distribution of thermal energy in the Municipality of Maribor. They can boast of more than 40 years of tradition, knowledge and experience in the production and distribution of thermal energy.

For more than twenty years, the Regional Energy Agency of Castilla y León, EREN, has been investing in renewable energy projects, both to demonstrate their technological or economic feasibility, and to acquire business and technical knowledge of the sector “from within”.

It started five years ago – The Mälardalen Energy Agency arranged a small conference on the topic of how to make buildings, such as homes, stores and warehouses, more energy efficient.

Managed by the Regional Government of Asturias, Asturias Energy Agency (FAEN) is organizing the implementation of a Regional Strategy for the Energy Renovation of Buildings, which involves stakeholders from both the public and private sector.

As part of the “Pays Ecogetiques” project, IRE has given its technical support to Municipalities that are situated in the Province of Imperia in Liguria.

Public street lighting is accountable for 35% of Tipperary County Council’s energy consumption. Upgrading an old streetlight to a standard LED can reduce energy costs by up to 50%.

The hospital in Uherské Hradiště is one of four hospitals belonging to the Zlín Region. The Uherské Hradiště Hospital provides outpatient and inpatient care in basic and specialised fields at 8 workplaces of surgical specialties, 12 workplaces of internal medicine

In January 2021, the municipality of Varces (8,300 inhabitants), in Isère, commissioned its wood heating network intended to supply its public buildings.

Philip Kehoe : “The 30% grant really made the project viable, along with substantial energy savings, it’s helping our farm to be more sustainable and helping us play our part in reducing carbon emissions”

The social housing stock in the SUDOE region (south-western Europe), mostly considered energy-inefficient, faces problems of fuel poverty, lack of global management systems and the difficulty of implementing energy efficiency policies. In the long-term,

The first initiative of the project will build 45 MW of electrolyser capacity in the coal mining valleys in the centre and south of Asturias (“Cuencas Mineras asturianas”), to supply a fleet of public transport vehicles, and for injection in the gas distribution grid.

These islands illustrate the difficulties faced in other parts of Europe. Climate change is making extreme weather events such as drought more frequent, while burgeoning population numbers and competing priorities, such as agriculture and tourism.

It sounds deceptively simple — drill a well into the Earth and bring piping steam or hot water to the surface to power a turbine that generates electricity, and in some parts of the world it is readily being used in this way.

In Ireland, 3cea has been helping homeowners carry out home energy upgrade to make their home more energy-efficient but also warm and comfortable.

Construction and demolition waste has attracted attention in Finland and Europe during recent years. The growing interest in construction and demolition waste is due to its’ huge amounts and recycling targets that aim to increase recycling rates of construction waste among other waste streams.