Challenge

Heat decarbonization of European industries is mandatory to reach the expected EU targets of CO2 and pollutants emission reduction by 2030 and 2050. While power grid decarbonization has already reached promising results, the decarbonization of European heat demand is still to begin, in particular in the industry sector.

Process industries are characterised by complex infrastructures in which production processes and energy facilities are interrelated and jointly operated. The overall complexity is squared because process industries need to control the production processes and, at the same time, the local heat generation, storage and distribution.

Solution

GREENSPIRE aims to tackle the barriers to implement renewable heat solutions in the European businesses/industries proposing the concept of sustainable heat symbiosis, where the companies share assets of different renewable heat technologies by innovative collaborative business models.

Solar thermal, high temperature heat pumps and thermal energy storages (TES) are the renewable heat technologies that are going to be explored with the recovery of waste heat streams during the project. Interesting synergies are possible combining these technologies to supply several businesses/industries simultaneously.