SET_HEAT: Supporting Energy Transition and Decarbonisation in District Heating Sector
Programme for the Environment and Climate Action LIFE Clean Energy Transition sub-programme
  • Project number 101119793
  • Project acronym LIFE22-CET-SET_HEAT
  • Call LIFE-2022-CET
  • Topic LIFE-2022-CET-DH
  • 5 EU States
  • 12 Partners
  • 36 Months
  • 40 Tasks
  • 1.6 M€ Total costs

Latest news & events

2025-12-22 in Announcements

SET_HEAT socio-economic studies

The SET_HEAT project is conducting a study to ascertain citizens' and community stakeholders' views on transformative district heating (DH) technologies included in the SET_HEAT model investment…

2025-08-29 in Announcements

Sizing large-scale industrial heat pump for heat recovery from treated municipal sewage

Open-access paper on the problem of optimal sizing of large-scale high-temperature heat pumps using treated sewage water as a heat source.

2025-08-28 in Announcements

Using coal mines for district heating decarbonization – a case study on waste

The article on using waste heat from coal mines has been published

2025-08-28 in Announcements

System integration of geothermal heat plant

System integration of geothermal heat plant in high-temperature district heating system - technical and economic issues

Recently added resources

2025-12-30 in Project results

SET_HEAT_ RETAIL Project Pre-feasibility Study

This pre-feasibility study examines the potential for recovering waste heat from a supermarket refrigeration system and integrating it into a district heating (DH) network.

2025-12-18 in Project results

Publishable report from Work Package 3

This document presents the results of the activities carried out within WP3 of the LIFE22-CET-SET_HEAT Project, tasks 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4. All activities in those tasks resulted in sensitive deliverables, which are summarised in the report.

2025-12-11 in Project results

SET_HEAT_ SOLAR Project Pre-feasibility Study

The prefeasibility work covers two complementary sub-projects. Rooftop‑based solar district heating integration in existing district heating systems in Bucharest, Romania and a centralized solar thermal plant combined with thermal storage and auxiliary systems in Zaprešić, Croatia.

2025-12-10 in Webinars

Third SET_HEAT on-line webinar

The SET-HEAT project webinar titled: ‘Current Actions for Decarbonisation of Croatian District Heating’ was held on 5 December 2025 on the MS Teams platform. It can be still watched on YouTube platform: https://youtu.be/xN0BfWLy53c

Co-funded by the European Union

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