Summary of the Soma District Heating System View
Soma District Heating Projects
Soma District Heating (DH) Project aims at improving the energy efficiency of the existing Soma Thermal Plant and avoiding coal consumption at the household level through installing a heat utilization system which will provide continuous heat and hot water to the residential, commercial and institutional buildings in the Soma District. In the first phase project, subscribers are only accepted from buildings which previously have a central heat distribution infrastructure. With the lower heat sales tariff compared to cost of heating in baseline scenario, the system will prove beneficial in a very short term.In the baseline situation residential heating is achieved by using coal fired heat only boilers in buildings or stoves in individual apartments. As a result of project activities a total of 58,071 tCOR2Re GHG emission reductions are estimated to be realized. The first phase of the project will start in Zone 1 where public buildings such as hospitals, schools and multi-storey buildings are concentrated. The project capacity is planned to be 8,100 HE which corresponds to 70 MWt and 153.2 GWhRthR.