GREEN HEAT - towards collaborative local decarbonization

About this project

<p>Despite the fact that many Polish cities have a very well-developed district heating system, a huge number of houses still use individual boilers for heating and domestic hot water preparation. The vast majority is based on fossil fuels, mainly coal, causing air pollution and emitting huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.<br> GreenHeat project Idea:<br> For the selected Pilot Case in Legionowo , a participatory procedure for the gradual elimination of individual fossil fuel boilers will be developed and carried out. This will lead to a recommendation on the target structure of the new local energy system based on renewables, indicating potential technology suppliers, listing financing sources and providing the business model of operation worked out together with local stakeholders. System should be socially and economically accepted and feasible in a reasonable time. This process will be used to develop a methodology to ultimately eliminate individual fossil fuel boilers from other locations/cities.<br> Project employs a multidisciplinary approach to achieve the project objectives, literature review, data analysis, surveys, individual and group in-depth interviews, system dynamic models, energy system analysis and modelling, co-creation and participatory process to support decision making processes.<br> The work was divided into thematic work packages looking at the problem from different perspectives; those are social, technical and economical. There is also one work package combining all of the aspects and developing tools - system dynamics (SD) models to support the transdisciplinary analysis.<br> Representatives of various stakeholders will be invited to cooperate: residents, technology suppliers, city council representatives, local businesses, potential investors, government agencies and NGOs.<br> &nbsp;</p>

Bilateral cooperation results

Norwegian partners from NILU brought to the consortium a high scientific level in the field of work on air quality and the use of cheap measurement methods. Based on measurements carried out in Poland and internal consultations, two publications were created in high-ranking scientific journals. Partners from UIB, on the other hand, brought knowledge on the use of tools for System Dynamic Modeling, which was previously absent within the consortium. Based on this program, a tool was developed that helps in the analysis of complex processes and in consultations with stakeholders. The cooperation also resulted in joint publications. Through cooperation, we improved the state of our knowledge and skills. Through the relations established during the project, new opportunities for cooperation on publications and on subsequent projects opened up. Based on these relations, a joint international project has already been submitted to the Interreg program together with partners from Norway, Sweden and Poland. Further project applications are also planned in the Horizon program. The Norwegian partners participated in internal consortium meetings during which relationships were established between the individual researchers and it seems that the cooperation may extend beyond the subject of the current project and contribute to the personal scientific development of the individuals.

Project partners

• Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) Donor project partner· Norway
• University of Bergen Donor project partner· Norway
• Kozminski University Project partner· Poland
• Maria Grzegorzewska University Project partner· Poland
• CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research Project partner· Poland
• KEZO Foundation Project partner· Poland