Prague will issue a tender for the Vltava water feeder to the New Town Hall
The Prague municipality will issue a tender for 30 million crowns for the construction of a feeder through which the city plans to lead water from the Vltava to the New Town Hall building on Mariánské náměstí and use it for heating. The city councilors decided on it today. According to the proposal, the new technology using heat pumps could bring significant savings in heating.
“The operation of the heat pumps will provide degrees during the thermal treatment of the Vltava above about four degrees Celsius above zero. Such temperatures are stable in the Vltava from the beginning of March to the middle of December. During this period, it will not be necessary to use gas boilers and heat pumps will serve as the main source of heat,” the approved document states.
In connection with the energy crisis, the city is also considering other cost-saving measures, for example lowering the temperature in buildings in the winter months. The city is guaranteed electricity supplies from PRE (Pražská energetika) until the end of this year, and in the case of gas from Pražská plynárenská until the end of next year. After the end of the existing contracts, the purchase of commodities from the municipality will be taken over by the newly established contribution organization Prague Community of Renewable Energy.
According to the approved climate strategy, the city wants to look at its own heat production in the future. The gas source is to provide the biogas station under construction at the Central Wastewater Treatment Plant water in Bubenč. Another one is to be created in Chrást outside Prague by expanding an existing facility, the purchase of which was approved by city councilors in June. The planned construction in the hitherto unused area of Bubna-Zátory, as well as parts of Dejvice and Veleslavín, could in the future obtain heat with the help of heat pumps from waste water.
Source: ČTK, photo: wikimedia commons, Own work
–5/9/2022 14.09, Heading: Waterworks and sewerage