On Monday 24, ESTIF participated in the EU funded ProgRESsHeat project’s stakeholders advisory meeting. The meeting was intended to gather external stakeholders’ inputs and points of view on the project activities.

The ProgRESsHeat project aims at assisting local, regional, national and EU political leaders in developing policy and strategies to ensure a quick and efficient deployment of renewables in heating and cooling networks.

More specifically, the project helps policy makers develop integrated, effective and efficient policy strategies aimed at achieving a fast and strong penetration of renewable and efficient heating and cooling systems. This includes the analysis of cross-sectoral effects between renewables and energy efficiency measures in industrial heat and cold, waste heat, heating and cooling in buildings and district heating. The project will develop a profound analysis of (1) heating and cooling demand and future developments, (2) long-term potential of renewable energies and waste heat in the regions, (3) barriers & drivers and (4) a model-based assessment of policy intervention in scenarios up to 2050.

During the stakeholders advisory meeting, the project leader (Marcus Hummel, TU Wien) presented some highlights of current state of analysis and preliminary conclusions for policy design and assessment. Then, participants have been asked inputs on the challenges and options for boosting renewable energy in decentral heating and cooling systems, and in district heating systems, distinguishing between options and opportunities on the local, regional, national and EU-level.

ESTIF has been particularly interested in this project development, as it is complementary in goals and actions to ESTIF-led FROnT project. Interactions and synergies between those two EU funded projects are thus being explored and discussed.

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