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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Miranda Bryant in Stockholm

‘The heat you need at a reasonable price’: how district heating can speed the switch to clean energy

Stockholm’s waterfront and skyline in winter
The inputs into Stockholm’s heating network include heat from wastewater, datacentres and supermarket refrigerators. Photograph: Maria Swärd/Getty Images

District heating is sometimes talked about like some kind of unattainable utopia, but in the Swedish capital these low-carbon heating networks are not special.

In fact, district heat is so run-of-the-mill that many Stockholmers do not know that they have it, said Fredrik Persson, as he showed the Guardian around Stockholm Exergi’s pioneering power station in Norra Djurgårdsstaden, a former port and industrial area.

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