The town of Nyborg is a middlesized Danish provincial town located at the island of ‘Fuen’, with a population of approximately 17,000. From the establishment of the district heating system in 1964, the planning has been farsighted and today the community as well as the environment benefits from it. Through decades the system has kept up with the growth of the community, managed to adjust the challenges of the global energy crises in the seventies and has during ongoing maintaining served the consumers with an economic and reliable heat supply. For more than 35 years development of the district heating system has focused on increasing harnessing of surplus heat in the production of district heating. Through an establish co-operation between NFS A/S and two chemical plants located in the town of Nyborg, the district heating supply takes off the surplus of waste heat produced on the plants – enough to supply 87% of these provincial towns.