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

2025-08-29 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

2025-09-25 in Other resources

Special session at the #SESAAU2025 Conference

The SET_HEAT Project organised special session titled “Energy Transition and Decarbonisation in the District Heating Sector” was part of the #SESAAU2025 11th International Conference on Smart Energy Systems.

2025-08-28 in Other resources

REPLICABILITY AND STANDARDISATION TO FACILITATE TIME-EFFECTIVE DECARBONISATION

Article published in the HOT|COOL Magazine https://hotcool.dbdh.dk/view/783068300/

2025-03-26 in Newsletter archives

Third SET_HEAT Project Newsletter

Replicability and standardisation may considerably streamline the planning processes, reduce costs, improve quality, facilitate communication, and eventually accel-erate investment processes and the transition overall.

2025-03-14 in Project results

Project Workshop in Bucharest - Post Event Report

The public event of the workshop brought together specialists from Romania, Denmark, Lithuania, Croatia and Poland, together with local authorities and thermal energy experts. A collective effort between district heating companies, local administration and citizens is essential to achieve the emission reduction and energy efficiency objectives, which was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Public Works, Development and Administration, the Ministry of Investments and European Projects, the Bucharest City Hall, Electrocentrale București S.A., the Bucharest-Ilfov Intercommunity Thermal Energy Development Association, as well as European experts in the field of thermal energy.

Co-funded by the European Union

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