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Article
Polish District Heating Systems—Development Perspectives
Author(s)
Krzysztof Wojdyga
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2016.03.002
Affiliation(s)
Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-653, Poland
ABSTRACT
The most economical and rational means of heat supply for city
inhabitants are district heating
systems. Heat generated in power plants and large heat sources is cheaper than
heat from individual sources. The reason for that is the amount of the generated heat and
the used fuel (coal for most heat sources). District heating, a very important
energy sub-sector for the Polish economy, provides heat supply to centralised
heating systems, which, on average, satisfy 72% of the demand for heat in
Polish cities. Therefore, several million Polish citizens use heat from
district heating systems that produce heat in professional, industrial and
municipal power plants. In Europe, over 100 million citizens use district
heating systems. The present situation of the Polish district heating sector is
a result of Poland’s transformation that took place at the beginning of the
1990s. The reform put the obligation of heat supply on the local authorities,
on the municipality, instead of the state. Along with the transformation,
district heating also made huge technological and technical progress.
Increasing expectations of recipients posed new challenges for the branch,
however.
KEYWORDS
District heating, energy efficiency, cogeneration, energy planning.
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