It is a victory after more than a year of struggle that the Danish Parliament on Friday adopted an agreement to remove the price cap on surplus heat. This is the reaction from the interest organization Synergi, which works for a more efficient use of energy. According to Synergi, the agreement now paves the way for greener and cheaper district heating in Denmark.
- Throughout Denmark, the price cap has been a barrier to replacing black energy with green surplus heat in district heating - numerous examples from Viborg, Odense, Vejen and many other places have shown this again and again. It is over now. With today's decision, I expect that far more surplus heat will heat Danes' homes throughout the country at the expense of alternative black fuels such as oil and natural gas. It's a fantastically good, green start to 2025, says Synergi's chairman Morten Helveg Petersen.
In Denmark alone, 11.4 terawatt hours (tWh) are wasted every year, corresponding to more than double Denmark's district heating production from oil, fossil gas and coal in 2022. In the EU, the total waste is 2,860 tWh. This is shown by an analysis from Danfoss. Surplus heat thus has the potential to cover the EU's total need for heat and hot water in homes and the service sector.
Only about 13 percent of the surplus heat is utilized today in Denmark and surplus heat supplies just 3.5 percent of the district heating in Denmark. But surplus heat from industry alone has the potential to provide green heat to 100,000 households, says Synergi, which points to surplus heat as a possible factor in the fight to become independent of Russian oil and gas.
- Today's good news is first and foremost a big step in the right direction for the green transition of Denmark and for Danish district heating customers. But saying goodbye to the price cap also means that we can displace some of the fossil fuels, biomass and not least Russian gas from district heating. In the big picture, a green, cheap and well-functioning Danish district heating network with lots of surplus heat can serve as a good example for the EU, which, under the leadership of Energy and Housing Commissioner Dan Jørgensen, will soon start delivering solutions that make the EU greener and independent of Russian energy, says Morten Helveg Petersen.
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