District heating and combined heat and power in central and Eastern Europe
About 85% of the world`s district heating is concentrated in Central and Eastern Europe and in several countries district heating covers around 50% of the total heat market. The systems have been designed and optimized in accordance with economic, political, and technical conditions in the former Soviet Union: plenty and very cheap fossile fuels, fixed and very low heat prices to the consumers, the remaining costs were covered by the state, limited financial resources for investments, limited access to new technology. The transition to market economy means that the Central and Eastern European district heating companies now have to optimize their systems on quite different assumptions than earlier. Such a thorough change of course takes its time and gives considerable problems in the transition period. To support the DH sectors in these difficult changes UNICHAL has established a working group for Central and Eastern Europe.
- OSTI ID:
- 96175
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9506165--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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