Thousands of households in Leipzig are to be supplied with heat from the waste heat from a refinery in future. The route from the TotalEnergies refinery in the south of Saxony-Anhalt to the trade fair city in Saxony is to be 19 kilometers long, Leipzig's municipal utilities announced. The district heating pipeline to the Kulkwitz heating plant should be completed in two years.
The project will reportedly cost more than 230 million euros. The construction of the pipeline is also intended to decarbonize Leipzig's district heating network. The waste heat from the refinery has not been used to date. In future, around 40 percent of Leipzig's current district heating requirements are to be covered with it. This is equivalent to supplying around 100,000 households.
"The project cleverly combines resource efficiency and climate protection with forward-looking cooperation between our companies in Central Germany," said Saxony's Minister of Economic Affairs Dirk Panter (SPD). The Federal Ministry of Economics is therefore funding the construction with over 90 million euros.
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