District heating and cogeneration in the EU-28: Current situation, potential and proposed energy strategy for its generalisation

Yearly, EU-28 conventional thermal generating plants reject a greater amount of energy than what ultimately is utilised by residential and commercial loads for heating and hot water. If this waste heat were to be used through district heating networks, given a previous energy valorisation, there wou...

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Main Authors: Enrique Rosales-Asensio, David Borge-Diez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia 2016-10-01
Series:Multidisciplinary Journal for Education, Social and Technological Sciences
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Online Access:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/MUSE/article/view/6339