The investment has replaced 10,000,000 m3 of natural gas with local sources of renewable energy. It has also reduced 20,500 tons of CO2 and despite the global energy crisis, increased the security of thermal energy supply for 40,000 people. In the preparatory phase, local conditions had to be properly mapped. In the case of the city, Kecskemét, neither wind, nor solar, hydro or geothermal energy can provide industrial quantities of thermal energy. However, there is a
capability on which the technology to support decarbonisation can be based safely and in long term. Due to global warming, there are planted forests within a 60 km zone of our municipality. These forests produce industrial quantities of wood that cannot be used for other purposes. Therefore, the existing biomass potential had to be used optimally. The chips were completed with sunflower seed husks and selectively collected municipal green biomass, involving the inhabitants and the municipal public services. Within the framework of the project, a modern, energy-efficient technology was installed. A heating plant equipped with biomass boilers of 20 5 MW was built and connected to the existing district heating network with a 6 km long, thermally insulated backbone pipeline, making climate-conscious district heating available also to new districts. Other parts of the project included the construction of a pump station and the integration of the new units into the system.
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