Energy Policycast

Energy Policycast's new season explores financing of district heating in the FinDH project.

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The IEA DHC-supported project brings together researchers and experts from Energy Modelling Lab/Denmark, Euroheat & Power/Belgium, Halmstad University/Sweden, Lund University/Sweden and Steinbeis Transfer Center Sustainable Finance and Management/Germany.

IEA DHC: https://www.iea-dhc.org/the-research/annexes/annex-xiv/annex-xiv-project-03

Project website: https://www.euroheat.org/dhc/eu-projects/findh

Project lead: Daniel Møller Sneum/Energy Modelling Lab and Lund University daniel@energymodellinglab.com

LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8167401/

The podcasts and contents presented here are not official IEA DHC communication, but solely the responsibility of the project partners behind the FinDH project, based in the desire to share results.

“Anything that exists is possible” as Boulding’s first law prescribes. I was wondering why, in some places of the world, district energy systems were very flexibly integrated with the electricity system – while in other parts, they were not. So I set out to explore the existence of flexible sector coupling.

This resulted in the study that is the focus of today’s episode.

Anyone working with sector coupling and flexibility may benefit from listening in – if they can bear a 30-minute talk by me. Or else, dig directly into the resources referenced below.

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Scientific paper - Barriers to flexibility in the district energy-electricity system interface – A taxonomy

Policy brief – Barriers to flexibility

Interactive version – Play around at your own pace

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The Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder is highly recommendable, and has recently hosted an episode with me as a guest (the upside is TWO middle-aged men chatting, instead of just ONE in this episode…). So give it a listen as well!

The FlexSUS project has received funding in the framework of the joint programming initiative ERA-Net Smart Energy Systems’ focus initiative Integrated, Regional Energy Systems, with support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 775970.

Sound design by Dea Cisar.

Hosted and produced by Daniel Sneum, Sustainability Division, Technical University of Denmark - comments welcome @DistrictEnergyD.

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A world premiere for your ears!

Nordic Clean Energy Scenarios by Nordic Energy Research is the most comprehensive study of decarbonisation of the Nordics so far – out 7 September 2021.

Energy Policycast is lucky enough to host two of the main authors, Klaus Skytte (CEO, Nordic Energy Research) and Kenneth Karlsson (CEO, Energy Modelling Lab and Senior Project Manager, Swedish Research Institute).

The study explores solution tracks to carbon neutral Nordics through 2030 and onwards to 2050. These tracks include electrification, power-to-X, bioenergy, carbon capture technologies in combination with bioenergy and behavioural change.

See the full study here: Nordic Clean Energy Scenarios

In the Peer Review section, Klaus recommends the study Renewable energy in the Nordics – state of the art of renewable targets in the Nordics and the Nordic Talks podcast. Additionally, The Nordic Energy Challenge 2021 is coming up in September 2021.

Sound design by Dea Cisar.

Hosted and produced by Daniel Sneum, Sustainability Division, Technical University of Denmark - comments welcome.

Please rate + share with your colleagues, so we can get fresh research into new ears and brains!