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

2025-11-28 in Project results

SET_HEAT_ CHP Project Pre-feasibility Study

The SET_HEAT_CHP project concerns the deployment of an integrated hybrid heat‑recovery and heat‑pump system. The intervention targets low‑temperature (LT) and medium‑temperature (MT) waste‑heat streams originating from gas‑engine cogeneration units and couples them with high‑efficiency industrial heat pumps to increase the usable share of renewable and waste‑heat sources in district heat supply.

2025-11-18 in Project results

SET_HEAT_ AIR Project Pre-feasibility Study

The document presents the technical pre-feasibility study for integrating air source heat pumps (ASHPs) and a 3,000 m³ thermal storage tank into the Naujoji Vilnia district heating (DH) system in Vilnius, Lithuania. The project supports the LIFE22-CET-SET_HEAT initiative aimed at accelerating energy transition and decarbonisation of district heating systems.

2025-11-18 in Project results

SET_HEAT_ LAKE Project Pre-feasibility Study

The SET_HEAT_LAKE project aims to demonstrate a viable pathway toward decarbonisation of Bucharest’s centralised district heating system by replacing fossil‑fuel-based heat generation with renewable heat derived from Lake Morii through a large-scale lake-water-source heat pump system.

2025-11-14 in Project results

SET_HEAT_SEWAGE Project Pre-feasibility Study

The study explores the integration of a wastewater-source heat recovery system into the district heating network (DHN) of Opole, Poland. It demonstrates how municipal wastewater infrastructure can be coupled with district heating to create a circular, low-emission, and energy-efficient urban energy system.

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