Zurich wants to heat 150,000 households ecologically
The city council wants to connect as many apartments as possible to the district heating network by 2040. It is now known in which six districts he will invest next.
–The Aubrugg combined heat and power plant already covers part of Zurich’s households.
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Big promises look good so shortly before the city council elections: Terms like “milestone” and “generational project” are mentioned several times when city councilor Michael Baumer (FDP) appears in front of the media on Tuesday. In fact, the “Expansion of the thermal networks of the EWZ” project is huge: by 2040, around 150,000 Zurich households are to have access to the city’s district heating network. There are also many companies, some of which consume large amounts of energy. The total costs are around 1.5 billion Swiss francs.
The expansion serves an overarching goal: to reduce CO₂ emissions in the city of Zurich to net zero by 2040. In order to do its part, Baumer and his department of industrial operations – to which the EWZ also belongs – would like to make the heat supply fossil-free. That means: gas and oil heating should disappear.
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