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08 Feb 2017

ā€œHamburg considers innovative heat storage schemeā€

energypost.eu

An extensive underground thermal heat storage system proposed in Hamburg could supply roughly a quarter of the city’s heating needs with waste heat from industrial and power plants, Jeffrey Michel reports for . ā€œIf successful, it would make Vattenfall’s plans to realise a CO2-neutral district heating network superfluous,ā€ Michel writes. The , a local ecological planning office, and , a subsidiary of the municipal waterworks , propose storing heat in a saltwater aquifer under the city, which has around 1.7 million inhabitants. The city aims to make its heat operations climate-neutral by 2050.

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