Homes and public buildings in Bewdley could be heated using water from the river in an innovative river renewable scheme being put forward by the local Transition group.
Transition Bewdley has been working on reducing the town’s energy use and moving it to renewables for years - then a study found it was one of the sites to explore a river heat scheme.

At a public meeting this week, they unveiled the promising results of a feasibility scheme into putting an energy centre in the ground of Bewdley school, where heat from river water would be extracted and boosted and hot water pumped to nearby homes in insulated pipes.

Amazing how volunteers and communities are taking forward new thinking and new projects to reveal new sustainable and innovative ways to meet local needs!

#ThisisTransition #communityenergy #renewables #districtheat

The EU auction for #hydrogen production results:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_24_2333

Lowest subsidy of 0,37 €/kg was claimed by #RenGas project in Lahti, #Finland, producing 12kt H2 p.a. and combining with CO2 from nearby bioenergy plant to produce methane for traffic.

The waste heat from the H2/CH4 process is sold as #districtHeat which yields more proceeds (10M€ p.a.) than the subsidy (4M€ p.a.). The 60-90MW electrolyser can also bid in reserve market.

https://ren-gas.com/en/projekti/lahti-2/
https://www.ymparisto.fi/sites/default/files/documents/Ren-Gas_YVA-selostus_LAHTI_28062023_FINAL_suojattu.pdf

@jgkoomey Yes you are right, what I meant was that the crypto product itself does not add more pollution downstream, like perhaps a new cruise ship running on heavy fuel oil.

But as a compromise to crypto miners, instead of blanket ban it could be allowed at transmission grid bottlenecks when there is risk of wind power curtailment and waste heat is recovered for something useful like #districtHeat.
Many Finnish heating utilities are building electric boilers to absorb wind power peaks.

"Rather than using their own furnaces, boilers, fireplaces or electric baseboard heaters to heat buildings, consumers would receive heat directly from a utility.

In Europe, 67 million people enjoy heating from thermal networks and #DistrictHeat systems supplied by a variety of sources in a mix that is increasingly less reliant on carbon."

https://theconversation.com/thermal-networks-the-missing-infrastructure-we-need-to-help-enable-carbon-free-heating-224054?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#DistrictHeat makes #WasteEnergy heating much easier to install as you only need one connection point:

"Meta’s hyperscale data center—spanning 50,000 square meters on an industrial estate on the edge of the city—has been pushing warm air generated by its servers into the district heating network under Odense. "

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-energy-heating-homes/

Low cost modular #solar generator and storage

#ConcentratedSolarPower
Long term #EnergyStorage similar to #DistrictHeat systems
Modularity (1MW units)
Off the shelves components

https://reneweconomy.com.au/the-australian-solar-tech-that-may-have-found-a-low-cost-solution-to-deep-storage/

By 2030 #Ireland wants to build:
– 80% #renewable #electricity (incl. #offshore wind, interconnects with EU countries)
– Buildings on #HeatPumps or #DistrictHeat (plus smart urban planning)
– 100% #EV sales
– Rethink #agriculture and land use, 18% #forest cover

This #ClimatePlan for €125 billion, or an average of €14 billion per year between 2021 and 2030.

https://www.thejournal.ie/long-term-climate-strategy-6055747-Apr2023/

Most of Eruope is throwing perfectly good heat out the window.

"A report published this week by the global engineering company Danfoss estimated that in the EU alone, excess heat was equal to 2,860 TWh a year, almost the same as the EU’s total energy demand for heat and hot water."

It's time to talk #DistrictHeat

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/23/recapturing-excess-heat-could-power-most-of-europe-say-experts