EU greenlights grants for cross-border biomass-based district heating
Two of the awards relate to German-Polish district heating projects and the third is to support coordination of a cross-border onshore wind park near the Latvia–Lithuania border. Funded through the EU budget’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Energy, the selected actions will help these energy infrastructure investments and contribute to the EU’s decarbonisation objectives, while strengthening energy integration between Member States.
Part of the 2022-10-UNITED HEAT project — Unified Network for Innovative Transition in Energy Decarbonisation of HEATing — one of the projects aims to develop climate-neutral district heating in the cities of Görlitz (Germany)/Zgorzelec (Poland). The project received CB RES status in 2022 and has already progressed through a studies sub-project and two works sub-projects in 2024 and 2025.
This latest action represents the final works sub-projects under UNITED HEAT. It includes the cross-border pipeline enabling physical heat exchange and cross-border system balancing, physically interconnecting the district heating systems on both sides of the border, and ensuring the integration of all heat sources developed under the previous sub-projects.
The other action is part of the 2024-6-TWIN-HEAT project. The overarching objective of the TWIN HEAT project is to fully decarbonise district heating in Słubice, Poland, and to initiate the deep decarbonisation of district heating in Frankfurt, Germany, through a coordinated cross-border approach based on renewable energy sources.
This action’s main objective is to replace the existing coal-fired heat generation units in Słubice (SEC Region) with two modern biomass boilers using sustainable biomass (wood chips), each with a thermal capacity of 6 MW.
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