National Recovery and Resilience Plan / District heating

Source: International Energy Agency
Last updated: 27 May 2025

To exploit the potential of district heating in the technological mix necessary to achieve environmental objectives in the heating and cooling sector, Component 3 - Measure 3 of Mission 2 of the PNRR finances projects relating to the construction of new networks or the extension of existing networks, in terms of customers supplied, including the plants for their power supply. To this end, priority is given to the development of efficient district heating, i.e. based on the distribution of heat generated from renewable sources, waste heat or cogenerated in high-performance plants.
The investment objective is aimed at the development of 330 km of efficient district heating networks and the construction of plants or connections for the recovery of waste heat for 360 MW, assuming that 65% of the resources are allocated to the networks (cost 1.3 million per km) and 35% is dedicated to the development of new plants (cost 0.65 million per MW).

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