Country is looking for companies for a new district heating network
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The state of Salzburg will integrate as many Salzburg companies as possible into a planned new district heating network. At present, the natural gas share in district heating in the city of Salzburg is still high – Salzburg AG is dependent on gas for three quarters.
District heating by Salzburg AG in the city of Salzburg is currently unthinkable without Russian gas. When the Siezenheim II biomass heating plant goes into operation in 2023, the gas dependency will no longer be 75 percent, but will still be 60 percent.
The SPÖ in the state parliament criticizes this high proportion of fossil fuels and the dependence on Russian gas imports. At the moment, companies want to get away from gas, often replacing gas with oil, another fossil fuel.
“Until 2040 heat supply from renewable energies”
The state of Salzburg is looking for companies that produce waste heat to report. In the future, the urban district heating supply will no longer be borne by individual large producers, but by many small waste heat suppliers, says Gerhard Löffler, head of the department for energy management in the state of Salzburg.
“Our goal for the state of Salzburg is a 100 percent heat supply from renewable energies. I think that’s probably realistic too. The challenge is not how, but when, i.e. how quickly we can do it. This is of course not a solution for the coming winter. But by 2040 we see it as feasible.”
The Kaindl panel factory in Wals (Flachgau) is planning a large waste wood incineration plant. A lot of waste heat will be generated there, which is also to be fed into the Salzburg district heating network.