Since the end of 2013, Pécs, the fifth largest city in Hungary, has been home to Europe’ s largest all-biomass cogeneration heating network, with two production units – a 35 MW plant powered by straw and a 50 MW plant running on wood and wood residue – meeting 60 % of the city’ s heating needs while avoiding 400,000 metric tonnes of CO₂ a year

Since January 2023, Veolia has been operating the 5th generation heat exchange network of the Paris-Saclay urban campus combining deep geothermal energy, waste heat from the CNRS supercomputer and heat recovery from the campus’ cooling network

Veolia recently announced a US $ 1.3bn pipeline of district heating projects set to be awarded by 2030 as part of its new Ecothermal Grid offering in the UK market, with US $ 273m worth of projects already secured in 2025 alone, spanning developments across Wiltshire, London, Bristol, Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire

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