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Codema held a webinar on The Role of the Public Sector in Developing 4th Generation District Heating, as part of the HeatNet NWE project, which is part-funded by the Interreg North-West Europe programme.

You can now view the webinar in the video on this page. The topics covered in this webinar included:

1. What is district heating?
2. Benefits of 4th Generation District Heating (4DHDC)
3. Why district heating is needed across Ireland
4. Current barriers and challenges for implementing district heating schemes
5. Why Public Sector involvement is so important
6. Setting out a roadmap for the public sector
7. How do I know my town / region is suitable for district heating?
8. Planning, economic and technological considerations
9. The latest on emerging public district heating schemes in Dublin

This webinar is a must for all public sector staff working in areas such as planning, architecture, climate change, engineering, facilities management, finance and procurement. It is also a great opportunity for those working in the energy, commercial and construction sectors to gain an insight into the emerging district heating market in Ireland and gain an understanding of the role they might play in future public or public-private schemes.

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The first project, the Tallaght District Heating Scheme, will receive almost €4.5 million and is a partnership between Codema and South Dublin County Council to develop a sustainable district heating solution in the Tallaght area to provide low-carbon heat to public sector, residential and commerical customers. The objective of this project is to decrease the emissions associated with the use of fossil fuels for heating in Tallaght. This project delivers a high level of innovation in the heating sector, with the first Irish data centre to be used to supply waste heat to heat nearby buildings, and will be the only such system in Ireland and the UK. The project is also supported through the HeatNet NWE project, which Codema is leading. HeatNet aims to promote the most advanced form of district heating throughout North-West Europe, and provides knowledge and expertise from a range of partners on this topic.

The second project, the Dublin District Heating System (DDHS), will capture waste heat from industrial facilities located on the Poolbeg peninsula, and in particular the waste heat generated at the Dublin Waste-to-Energy (DWtE) plant, and piping it into homes and businesses in the Poolbeg, Ringsend and Docklands areas of Dublin City. The waste heat produced from operations at the DWtE plant (90 MW of DH), has the potential to heat 50,000 homes in Dublin City, which would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. Codema has been working closely with Dublin City Council on this project, and has completed a Detailed Financial Appraisal and a Market Research Report and Communciations Strategy, among others.

The Tallaght District Heating Scheme will be connected in 2020, with Dublin City's DDHS due for connection the following year.

Codema is project partner with South Dublin County Council to develop the Tallaght District Heating Scheme (TDHS), which will be the first large-scale district heating network of its kind in Ireland. Phase 1 of of the scheme is due to begin construction in May 2021.

The scheme will also operate as Ireland’s first not-for-profit utility and will make a significant contribution to reducing carbon emissions in the area, saving almost 1,500 tonnes of CO2 each year and establishing Tallaght as a leader in innovation in the area of climate change.

District heating is a network of highly-insulated pipes that delivers low-carbon heat from a central energy source to provide space heating and hot water to the buildings connected to the network. In the case of the Tallaght District Heating Scheme, this project will deliver a high level of innovation, as waste heat from the nearby Amazon data centre will supply the heat to the network. During normal operation, heat demand will be 100% covered from the data centre waste heat.

The first phase of this project will connect existing and new local authority buildings and the TU Dublin-Tallaght campus to this local district heating network. There is also potential for the new residential development at Belgard Gardens, which will be home to more than 3,000 people, to connect to the network at a later phase.

Codema has helped South Dublin County Council to secure funding of almost €4.5 million for the Tallaght District Heating Scheme through the Government's Climate Action Fund, as well as support from the Interreg North-West Europe HeatNet NWE project and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland.